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Edward A. Taft — 4 Patents

Adobe: 3 patents #1,168 of 4,589Top 30%
Mountain View, CA: #4,399 of 11,022 inventorsTop 40%
California: #126,026 of 386,348 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Edward A. Taft has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Adobe. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in May 2012. Edward A. Taft ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Edward A. Taft in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1998.peak 21998: 2 patents19982000: 1 patents20002012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8175996 Prescriptions for nonsupported features of an electronic document Jeff Young 2012-05-08 $9,453,000
6073148 Displaying electronic documents with substitute fonts Edward R. Rowe, Eswar Priyadarshan, Kenneth S. Anderson, Nabeel A. Al-Shamma, Elizabeth M. McQuarrie +1 more 2000-06-06 $110,507,000
5819301 Method and apparatus for reading multi-page electronic documents Edward R. Rowe, Eswar Priyadarshan, Elizabeth M. McQuarrie 1998-10-06 $7,912,000
5737599 Method and apparatus for downloading multi-page electronic documents with hint information Edward R. Rowe, Eswar Priyadarshan, Kenneth S. Anderson, Nabeel A. Al-Shamma, Elizabeth M. McQuarrie +1 more 1998-04-07