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Nathaniel McCully — 10 Patents

Adobe: 9 patents #417 of 4,589Top 10%
Apple: 1 patents #12,397 of 18,612Top 70%
Palo Alto, CA: #2,304 of 9,675 inventorsTop 25%
California: #61,378 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Nathaniel McCully has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Adobe. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in January 2008. Nathaniel McCully ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Nathaniel McCully in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2006.peak 42000: 1 patents20002005: 1 patents20052006: 4 patents20062007: 3 patents20072008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7320104 Text grid creation tools Heath A. Lynn, Marilyn E. Shade 2008-01-15 $50,658,000
7305617 Method for aligning text to baseline grids and to CJK character grids 2007-12-04 $131,712,000
7296227 Determining line leading in accordance with traditional Japanese practices 2007-11-13 $53,687,000
7167274 Line leading from an arbitrary point 2007-01-23 $84,585,000
7123261 Coordinating grid tracking and mojikumi spacing of Japanese text 2006-10-17 $87,048,000
7071941 Method for calculating CJK emboxes in fonts 2006-07-04
6993709 Smart corner move snapping Heath A. Lynn 2006-01-31 $89,303,000
6985146 Composite font editing device and computer program Marilyn E. Shade, Margie Vogel 2006-01-10 $87,371,000
6928611 Setting text composition spacing amount Shinji Hiramatsu, Marilyn E. Shade 2005-08-09 $76,533,000
6128632 Methods for applying rubi annotation characters over base text characters 2000-10-03 $145,119,000