Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
GS

Gary K. Shaffer — 9 Patents

Caterpillar: 5 patents #1,323 of 8,398Top 20%
Cisco: 2 patents #5,498 of 13,007Top 45%
Apex, NC: #251 of 1,394 inventorsTop 20%
North Carolina: #5,849 of 45,564 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #564,541 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
10820534 System and method for growing and protecting seedlings Demetra Kandalepas, George Kandalepas 2020-11-03
10135945 Methods and systems for boundary placement in a data stream 2018-11-20
9426479 Preserving captioning through video transcoding 2016-08-23
7881546 Slab-based processing engine for motion video Neal S. Page, Scott Labrozzi, Philip G. Jacobsen 2011-02-01
5838562 System and a method for enabling a vehicle to track a preset path Adam J. Gudat, Walter J. Bradbury, Dana A. Christensen, Carl A. Kemner, Craig L. Koehrsen +17 more 1998-11-17
5615116 Apparatus and method for autonomous vehicle navigation using path data Adam J. Gudat, Prithvi Narayana Rao, Wenfan Shi, Dong Hun Shin, William Whittaker +15 more 1997-03-25
5612883 System and method for detecting obstacles in the path of a vehicle William Whittaker, Jay H. West, Richard G. Clow, Sanjiv Singh, Norman K. Lay +1 more 1997-03-18
5610815 Integrated vehicle positioning and navigation system, apparatus and method Adam J. Gudat, Walter J. Bradbury, Dana A. Christensen, Richard G. Clow, Lonnie J. Devier +17 more 1997-03-11
5548516 Multi-tasked navigation system and method for an autonomous land based vehicle Adam J. Gudat, Prithvi Narayana Rao, Wenfan Shi, Dong Hun Shin, James W. Sennott +17 more 1996-08-20