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William R. Softky — 9 Patents

Adobe: 3 patents #1,168 of 4,589Top 30%
Microsoft: 3 patents #13,486 of 40,388Top 35%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
Ricoh Company: 1 patents #6,943 of 9,818Top 75%
Menlo Park, CA: #898 of 3,774 inventorsTop 25%
California: #67,547 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
William R. Softky has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Adobe. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in June 2017. William R. Softky ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list William R. Softky in Menlo Park, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2004.peak 32003: 1 patents20032004: 3 patents20042008: 1 patents20082014: 2 patents20142016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9678641 Configurable computation modules 2017-06-13 $26,949,000
9498671 Treadmill work surface 2016-11-22
8893076 Configurable computation modules 2014-11-18 $23,380,000
8719273 Analytics data indexing system and methods 2014-05-06 $17,425,000
7395525 Method and apparatus for displaying computer program errors as hypertext 2008-07-01 $27,605,000
6784899 Systems and methods for providing rich multimedia messages to remote users using telephones and facsimile machines John W. Barrus, Gregory J. Wolff 2004-08-31
6782530 Method of ranking messages generated in a computer system Jonathan D. Pincus, David J. Sielaff 2004-08-24 $156,840,000
6763497 Method and apparatus for displaying computer program errors as hypertext 2004-07-13 $70,695,000
6633868 System and method for context-based document retrieval Shermann Loyall Min, Constantin Lorenzo Tanno, Zachary Mainen 2003-10-14