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William Waddoup — 4 Patents

IEInternational Standard Electric: 2 patents #74 of 567Top 15%
Apple: 2 patents #9,294 of 18,612Top 50%
Sawbridgeworth, GB: #21 of 57 inventorsTop 40%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
William Waddoup has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in December 2013. William Waddoup ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list William Waddoup in Sawbridgeworth, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2013.peak 21984: 1 patents19841987: 1 patents19872013: 2 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8599072 Antennas Christopher Reed, Simon Bates, Graham Dolman, David Adams, Dean Kitchener 2013-12-03 $83,608,000
8514139 Antenna structures and arrays David Adams, Andrew Urquhart, Dean Kitchener, Steven Hall, Simon Gale 2013-08-20 $93,743,000
4672387 Antenna systems for omnidirectional pattern Andrew P. Norris 1987-06-09 $9,541,000
4431995 Phased array signal processing Paul Barton, Peter Blair 1984-02-14 $5,307,000