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William M. Shapiro — 14 Patents

Adobe: 13 patents #262 of 4,589Top 6%
Palo Alto, CA: #1,725 of 9,675 inventorsTop 20%
California: #43,920 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
William M. Shapiro has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Adobe. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in May 2017. William M. Shapiro ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list William M. Shapiro in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2014.peak 42009: 1 patents20092010: 2 patents20102011: 2 patents20112012: 2 patents20122013: 2 patents20132014: 4 patents20142017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9659180 Personalized website theme 2017-05-23 $36,891,000
8925108 Document access auditing Jonathan D. Herbach, James Donahue 2014-12-30 $16,642,000
8868916 Self-contained electronic signature 2014-10-21 $21,608,000
8627489 Distributed document version control Jonathan D. Herbach, James Donahue 2014-01-07 $12,850,000
8627077 Transparent authentication process integration Jonathan D. Herbach, James Donahue 2014-01-07 $12,850,000
8479301 Offline access in a document control system James Donahue, Jonathan D. Herbach 2013-07-02 $26,717,000
8424102 Document access auditing Jonathan D. Herbach, James Donahue 2013-04-16 $15,723,000
8108672 Transparent authentication process integration Jonathan D. Herbach, James Donahue 2012-01-31 $25,194,000
8100747 System and method of conducting an auction based game Kathy Karwat Singer, Christopher Teas, Jay Gissen 2012-01-24
7995758 Family of encryption keys 2011-08-09 $9,258,000
7930757 Offline access in a document control system James Donahue, Jonathan D. Herbach 2011-04-19 $15,724,000
7840802 Controlling access to electronic documents James Donahue 2010-11-23 $55,157,000
7707642 Document access auditing Jonathan D. Herbach, James Donahue 2010-04-27 $14,145,000
7555769 Security policy user interface Joseph D. Steele 2009-06-30 $135,648,000