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Derek Merrill — 2 Patents

ATAT&T: 1 patents #10,636 of 18,772Top 60%
San Francisco, CA: #14,470 of 26,999 inventorsTop 55%
California: #187,151 of 386,348 inventorsTop 50%
Overall (All Time): #1,709,992 of 4,157,543Top 45%
2 Patents All Time
Derek Merrill has been granted 2 US patents while listed as an inventor at AT&T. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in May 2014. Derek Merrill ranks #1,709,992 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 41.1%). Patent records list Derek Merrill in San Francisco, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–2 of 2 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8737591 Method and apparatus of a voice-response directory assistance system having a targeted advertising engine Alec S. Andronikov, Alexey Bulavin, Michael Loftus, Barbra Higgins, Helen Lambert 2014-05-27 $11,115,000
8600415 System and method for distributing advertisements to third-party SMS content providers Alec S. Andronikov 2013-12-03