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David Kaufman — 15 Patents

ATAT&T: 7 patents #2,622 of 18,772Top 15%
General Motors: 4 patents #3,757 of 18,328Top 25%
SSSes S.A.: 2 patents #2 of 12Top 20%
GIGeneral Instrument: 1 patents #417 of 950Top 45%
HLHughes Electronics Limited: 1 patents #605 of 1,474Top 45%
Atlanta, GA: #480 of 7,950 inventorsTop 7%
Georgia: #2,105 of 35,610 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
David Kaufman has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at AT&T. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in November 2025. David Kaufman ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list David Kaufman in Atlanta, GA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2019.peak 31991: 1 patents19911999: 1 patents19992001: 1 patents20012016: 1 patents20162019: 3 patents20192022: 2 patents20222023: 3 patents20232024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12466440 Autonomous vehicle hailing and pickup location refinement through use of an identifier Kedar Patel 2025-11-11
12436856 System and method for data driven performance system testing Michael Timmy Opachevsky 2025-10-07
12067561 System architecture for enabling distributed temporary control of discrete units of an asset Glenn R. Hanson, John Falcone 2024-08-20
11809196 Autonomous vehicle hailing and pickup location refinement through use of an identifier Keyur R. Patel 2023-11-07
11809197 Autonomous vehicle hailing and pickup location refinement through use of an identifier Keyur R. Patel 2023-11-07
11683086 Beam placement methods, systems, and computer program products 2023-06-20
11336363 Beam placement methods, systems, and computer program products 2022-05-17
11269353 Autonomous vehicle hailing and pickup location refinement through use of an identifier Keyur R. Patel 2022-03-08
10516972 Employing an alternate identifier for subscription access to mobile location information 2019-12-24 $53,929,000
10475020 Mobile device roaming status subscription Andrew Eberhart 2019-11-12 $51,803,000
10206056 Access to mobile location related information Andrew Eberhart 2019-02-12 $39,055,000
9351111 Access to mobile location related information Andrew Eberhart 2016-05-24 $29,086,000
6189835 Apparatus for spacecraft angular momentum control through the use of reflective thermal blankets 2001-02-20
5928461 RF plasma source for cleaning spacecraft surfaces Weldon S. Williamson, John J. Vajo 1999-07-27
4982430 Bootstrap channel security arrangement for communication network William A. Frezza, Richard Conover 1991-01-01