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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Alex Thompson — 31 Patents

Apple: 11 patents #2,966 of 18,612Top 20%
NANauto: 7 patents #6 of 30Top 20%
General Motors: 4 patents #3,757 of 18,328Top 25%
HPHarrow Products: 3 patents #13 of 41Top 35%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
MGMentor Graphics: 1 patents #345 of 698Top 50%
Amazon: 1 patents #10,717 of 19,158Top 60%
Palo Alto, CA: #730 of 9,675 inventorsTop 8%
California: #16,606 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
Alex Thompson has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in August 2025. Alex Thompson ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list Alex Thompson in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2022.peak 61990: 1 patents19901992: 1 patents1995: 2 patents19951996: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents2010: 2 patents20102019: 2 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 5 patents2022: 6 patents20222023: 2 patents2024: 2 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12400269 System and method for adverse vehicle event determination Shobana Sankaran, Charles Hornbaker, Stefan Heck 2025-08-26
12321829 System and method for contextualized vehicle operation determination Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Ravi Kumar Satzoda, Michael Eamonn Gleeson-May, Ludmila Levkova 2025-06-03
12257546 Devices, systems, facilities and processes for carbon capture optimization in industrial facilities Ben Heichelbech, Ivan Van der Walt, Connor Rivard 2025-03-25
12146659 Methods, systems, and devices for flue gas cooling Connor Rivard, Eunhwa Kim, Sanjeev Agrawal, Ben Heichelbech 2024-11-19
12025307 Methods, systems, and devices for flue gas cooling Connor Rivard, Eunhwa Kim, Sanjeev Agrawal, Ben Heichelbech 2024-07-02
11819797 Devices, systems, facilities and processes for carbon capture optimization in industrial facilities Ben Heichelbech, Ivan Van der Walt, Connor Rivard 2023-11-21
11806664 Devices, systems, facilities, and processes of liquid natural gas processing for power generation Ivan Van der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Vikrum Subra, Victor Fernandes, Michael Abegg 2023-11-07
11484825 Devices, systems, facilities and processes for carbon capture optimization in industrial facilities Ben Heichelbech, Ivan Van der Walt, Connor Rivard 2022-11-01
11484829 Methods, systems, and devices for flue gas cooling for carbon capture processes Ivan Van der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Connor Rivard, Victor Fernandes 2022-11-01
11446587 Liquid natural gas processing Ivan Van der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Vikrum Subra, Victor Fernandes, Michael Abegg 2022-09-20
D952690 Tire inflator 2022-05-24
11293691 Devices, systems, facilities, and processes for liquefied natural gas production Ivan Van der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Vikrum Subra, Victor Fernandes, Michael Abegg 2022-04-05
11281944 System and method for contextualized vehicle operation determination Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Ravi Kumar Satzoda, Michael Eamonn Gleeson-May, Ludmila Levkova 2022-03-22
11164259 System and method for adverse vehicle event determination Shobana Sankaran, Charles Hornbaker, Stefan Heck 2021-11-02
11161076 Devices, systems, facilities, and processes of liquid natural gas processing for power generation Ivan Van der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Vikrum Subra, Victor Fernandes, Michael Abegg 2021-11-02
11112174 Devices, systems, facilities, and processes for liquefied natural gas production Ivan Van der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Vikrum Subra, Victor Fernandes, Michael Abegg 2021-09-07
11067335 Devices, systems, facilities, and processes for liquefied natural gas production Ivan Van der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Vikrum Subra, Victor Fernandes, Michael Abegg 2021-07-20
11017479 System and method for adverse vehicle event determination Shobana Sankaran, Charles Hornbaker, Stefan Heck 2021-05-25
D900936 Game controller Jasdomin Kiabette Santana, Daniel Kyle Taylor, Joshua Palit 2020-11-03
10769340 Automatic moving of probe locations for parasitic extraction Sridhar Srinivasan, Yi-Ting Lee, Patrick D. Gibson, Padmaja Susarla 2020-09-08
10453150 System and method for adverse vehicle event determination Shobana Sankaran, Charles Hornbaker, Stefan Heck 2019-10-22
10430695 System and method for contextualized vehicle operation determination Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Ravi Kumar Satzoda, Michael Eamonn Gleeson-May, Ludmilla Levkova 2019-10-01
7652447 Power capacitors for AC motors mounted diametrically on associated transmissions Terence G. Ward, Brian A. Welchko 2010-01-26
7646608 Heat transfer plate Terence G. Ward 2010-01-12
7518066 Conformable interface device for improved electrical joint Terence G. Ward 2009-04-14 $1,788,000