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Richard A. Schmelzer — 20 Patents

Amazon: 9 patents #1,701 of 19,158Top 9%
JIJibbitz: 4 patents #1 of 4Top 25%
CRCrocs: 1 patents #40 of 70Top 60%
Boulder, CO: #317 of 5,018 inventorsTop 7%
Colorado: #1,960 of 40,980 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Richard A. Schmelzer has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Amazon. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in March 2017. Richard A. Schmelzer ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Richard A. Schmelzer in Boulder, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2010.peak 41995: 1 patents19951996: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19972005: 1 patents2007: 2 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 4 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 4 patents20142017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9589141 Copyright detection and protection system and method — 2017-03-07
8905830 Cross ventilation curtain system — 2014-12-09
8782814 System and method for securing accessories to clothing Sheri Schmelzer 2014-07-22
8775317 Copyright detection and protection system and method — 2014-07-08
8645279 Copyright detection and protection system and method — 2014-02-04
8484691 Copyright detection and protection system and method — 2013-07-09
8122519 System and method for securing accessories to wearable items Sheri Schmelzer 2012-02-28
7797249 Copyright detection and protection system and method Bryan Pellom 2010-09-14
7711652 Copyright detection and protection system and method — 2010-05-04
7707088 Copyright detection and protection system and method — 2010-04-27
7698836 System and method for securing accessories to clothing Sheri Schmelzer 2010-04-20
D600907 Phone case Michael C. Boyd, Richard N. Case, Bowden Ormsbee 2009-09-29
7565327 Copyright detection and protection system and method — 2009-07-21
7363278 Copyright detection and protection system and method Bryan Pellom 2008-04-22
D554847 Shoe accessory Sheri Schmelzer 2007-11-13
7278093 Custom computer wallpaper and marketing system and method Tomas Jablonski, Robert Schmelzer 2007-10-02
6920606 Custom computer wallpaper and marketing system and method Tomas Jablonski, Robert Schmelzer 2005-07-19
5594490 System for distributing video/audio files from central location to a plurality of cable headends William P. Dawson, Jay Schiller, Daniel J. Zigmond 1997-01-14
5499046 CATV distribution system with each channel having its own remote scheduler Jay Schiller 1996-03-12
5424770 Method and apparatus for automatic insertion of a television signal from a remote source Trevor Lambert 1995-06-13

Frequent Collaborators

Sheri Schmelzer4 shared
Robert Schmelzer2 shared
Jay Schiller2 shared
Tomas Jablonski2 shared
Bryan Pellom2 shared
Richard N. Case1 shared

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