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Richard E. Crandall — 53 Patents

Apple: 34 patents #889 of 18,612Top 5%
RJRobert T. And Virginia T. Jenkins: 3 patents #4 of 7Top 60%
Applied Materials: 3 patents #3,025 of 7,310Top 45%
UNUnknown: 2 patents #12,644 of 83,584Top 20%
WUWashington University: 1 patents #704 of 1,596Top 45%
ATAmerican District Telegraph: 1 patents #27 of 49Top 60%
Disney: 1 patents #4,015 of 6,686Top 65%
CACascade: 1 patents #31 of 65Top 50%
OUOregon Health & Science University: 1 patents #352 of 725Top 50%
Portland, OR: #317 of 9,213 inventorsTop 4%
Oregon: #632 of 28,073 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #48,528 of 4,157,543Top 2%
53 Patents All Time
Richard E. Crandall has been granted 53 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in August 2025. Richard E. Crandall ranks #48,528 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Richard E. Crandall in Portland, OR, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 53 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
RE50538 Automatic avatar creation Alex T. Nelson, Cedric Bray, Thomas Goossens, Rudolph van der Merwe, Bertrand Serlet 2025-08-19
RE49044 Automatic avatar creation Alex T. Nelson, Cedric Bray, Thomas Goossens, Rudolph van der Merwe, Bertrand Serlet 2022-04-19
10917232 Data enciphering or deciphering using a hierarchical assignment system Mark Gesley, Edlyn Teske, Tim A. Williams 2021-02-09
10803126 Method and/or system for sorting digital signal information Mark Gesley, Brandon McPhail 2020-10-13
10430416 Method and/or system for processing data streams Mark Andrews, Karl Schiffmann 2019-10-01
9787471 Data enciphering or deciphering using a hierarchical assignment system Mark Gesley, Edlyn Teske, Tim A. Williams 2017-10-10
9600857 Digital image resampling Jason Klivington, Rudolph van der Merwe, Mark Zimmer 2017-03-21 $48,833,000
9473780 Video transmission using content-based frame search Alex T. Nelson 2016-10-18 $70,285,000
8948513 Blurring based content recognizer Rudolph van der Merwe, Samuel G. Noble, Bertrand Serlet, Stanislav Kounitski 2015-02-03 $71,266,000
8929676 Blurring based content recognizer Rudolph van der Merwe, Samuel G. Noble, Bertrand Serlet, Stanislav Kounitski 2015-01-06 $123,182,000
8891894 Psychovisual image compression Rudolph van der Merwe, Douglas P. Mitchell, Ian C. Hendry, Bertrand Serlet 2014-11-18 $78,848,000
8751557 Method and/or system for comparing character expressions Karl Schiffmann 2014-06-10
8692830 Automatic avatar creation Alex T. Nelson, Cedric Bray, Thomas Goossens, Rudolph van der Merwe, Bertrand Serlet 2014-04-08 $54,530,000
8657446 Method and apparatus for visual field monitoring Richard G. Weleber, Scott P. Gillespie 2014-02-25
8655096 Automatic image sharpening using entropy-based blur radius Jason Klivington, Rudolph van der Merwe 2014-02-18 $84,256,000
8520971 Digital image resampling Jason Klivington, Rudolph van der Merwe, Mark Zimmer 2013-08-27 $110,263,000
8514816 Location determination using formula Jeffrey Bush, Ronald K. Huang, Daryl Mun-Kid Low, Rudolph van der Merwe, Patrick Block Carlisle 2013-08-20 $93,743,000
8484236 Method and/or system for processing data streams Mark Andrews, Karl Schiffmann 2013-07-09
8335914 Techniques and graphical user interfaces for categorical shuffle Thomas Dowdy 2012-12-18 $318,564,000
8213389 Location determination using formula Jeffrey Bush, Ronald K. Huang, Daryl Mun-Kid Low, Rudolph van der Merwe, Patrick Block Carlisle 2012-07-03 $211,685,000
8099591 Techniques and graphical user interfaces for categorical shuffle Thomas Dowdy 2012-01-17 $94,106,000
8073893 Method and/or system for comparing character expressions Karl Schiffmann 2011-12-06
8010473 Prime indexing and/or other related operations Sam Noble 2011-08-30
7751475 Arbitrary-resolution, extreme-quality video codec Evan T Jones, Jason Klivington, David Kramer 2010-07-06 $123,722,000
7734048 Cryptographic system using chaotic dynamics 2010-06-08 $128,483,000