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Alan Lee Erickson — 19 Patents

Adobe: 19 patents #159 of 4,589Top 4%
Highlands Ranch, CO: #33 of 703 inventorsTop 5%
Colorado: #2,106 of 40,980 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Alan Lee Erickson has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Adobe. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in November 2025. Alan Lee Erickson ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Alan Lee Erickson in Highlands Ranch, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2019.peak 32005: 1 patents20052013: 2 patents20132017: 2 patents20172018: 2 patents20182019: 3 patents20192020: 3 patents20202021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents20222023: 2 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12462456 Non-destructive generative image editing Davis Taylor Brown, Dana Michelle Jefferson, Michael Spencer Cragg 2025-11-04
11776184 Sky replacement Jianming Zhang, I-Ming Pao, Guotong Feng, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Frederick Mandia +6 more 2023-10-03 $69,195,000
11645788 Sky replacement preset loading Guotong Feng, I-Ming Pao, Betty Leong, Hyunghwan Byun 2023-05-09 $76,714,000
11335049 Component-based digital image synchronization Russell T. Williams, Habib Khalfallah, Jan Stoeckmann 2022-05-17 $176,347,000
11042990 Automatic object replacement in an image I-Ming Pao, Sarah A. Kong, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Hyunghwan Byun 2021-06-22 $186,327,000
11036915 Dynamic font similarity I-Ming Pao, Zhaowen Wang, Hailin Jin 2021-06-15 $178,794,000
10825213 Component-based digital image synchronization Russell T. Williams, Habib Khalfallah, Jan Stoeckmann 2020-11-03 $180,895,000
10783408 Identification of fonts in an application Zhaowen Wang, Sarah A. Kong, I-Ming Pao, Hailin Jin 2020-09-22 $82,216,000
10592590 Non-resident font preview I-Ming Pao, Yuyan Song, Seth Shaw, Hailin Jin, Zhaowen Wang 2020-03-17 $87,656,000
10489009 User interface facilitating mesh generation Yuyan Song, Sarah A. Kong, Bradee Rae Evans, Aseem Agarwala 2019-11-26 $51,020,000
10445407 Automated generation of guides based on content zone shapes Seth Shaw 2019-10-15 $56,966,000
10380723 Editing dynamically selected portions of target images in a mask-based editing interface Betty Leong, Sarah Stuckey, Sarah A. Kong, Bradee Rae Evans 2019-08-13 $67,265,000
10120523 User interface facilitating mesh generation Yuyan Song, Sarah A. Kong, Bradee Rae Evans, Aseem Agarwala 2018-11-06 $227,573,000
9955065 Dynamic motion path blur user interface Gregg D. Wilensky, Nathan A. Carr, Yuyan Song, Manish Kumar, Bradee Rae Evans +5 more 2018-04-24 $94,968,000
9723204 Dynamic motion path blur kernel Gregg D. Wilensky, Nathan A. Carr, Yuyan Song, Manish Kumar, Bradee Rae Evans +5 more 2017-08-01 $43,128,000
9536337 Restoring digital image noise lost in a blur 2017-01-03 $20,589,000
8406566 Methods and apparatus for soft edge masking Gregg D. Wilensky, Scott Cohen, Jen-Chan Chien 2013-03-26 $9,163,000
8379972 Color decontamination for image compositing Jue Wang, Sarah A. Kong 2013-02-19 $7,596,000
6964017 System and method of creating interactive visual content Douglas E. Meisner, Troy A. Gaul, Timothy N. Wright, Christopher P. Hondl, Doug Ahmann 2005-11-08 $35,284,000