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Marshall Williams — 17 Patents

AMAmpex: 9 patents #8 of 247Top 4%
Philips: 2 patents #2,426 of 7,731Top 35%
Amazon: 2 patents #7,232 of 19,158Top 40%
UNUnisys: 2 patents #644 of 2,028Top 35%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
Fremont, CA: #1,017 of 9,298 inventorsTop 15%
California: #35,467 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Marshall Williams has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ampex. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in May 2015. Marshall Williams ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Marshall Williams in Fremont, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1985.peak 41984: 2 patents19841985: 4 patents1986: 1 patents19861987: 1 patents1988: 1 patents19881989: 1 patents1992: 1 patents19921998: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002002: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032011: 1 patents2015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9042833 Infrared and capacitance based sensing for proximity detection Nagendra Bage Jayaraj, Khaled Ahmad Obeidat, Michael M. Lee 2015-05-26 $76,785,000
7921309 Systems and methods for determining and managing the power remaining in a handheld electronic device David Isbister, Nicholas Vaccaro 2011-04-05 $125,551,000
6580461 Line-quadrupler in home theater uses line-doubler of AV-part and scaler in graphics controller of PC-part Paul Chambers, Christopher Coley, Jeroen Heuvelman 2003-06-17 $1,034,000
6437828 Line-quadrupler in home theater uses line-doubler of AV-part and scaler in graphics controller of PC-part Paul Chambers, Christopher Coley, Jeroen Heuvelman 2002-08-20 $1,097,000
6014750 Techniques for distributing/supplying intra-computer DC power to external peripheral devices of a computer system 2000-01-11 $43,160,000
5768600 Method for supplying DC power from a PC's internal power supply to any associated peripheral devices 1998-06-16 $25,165,000
5153850 Method and apparatus for modifying two's complement multiplier to perform unsigned magnitude multiplication 1992-10-06 $152,000
4802023 System for reading and writing vertical interval time code 1989-01-31
4786985 Method and apparatus for extracting binary signals included in vertical blanking intervals of video signals 1988-11-22
4679098 Video tape transport servo for variable tape speed control David R. Rodal 1987-07-07
4594563 Signal comparison circuit and phase-locked-loop using same 1986-06-10
4560983 Dynamically interactive responsive control device and system 1985-12-24
4557434 Tape remaining circuit 1985-12-10
4532560 Apparatus and method for indicating tape time 1985-07-30
4530107 Shift register delay circuit 1985-07-16
4446389 Quadrature tach decoder circuit David O'Gwynn 1984-05-01
4427978 Multiplexed liquid crystal display having a gray scale image 1984-01-24