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Derek Richardson — 15 Patents

DEDeako: 12 patents #1 of 9Top 15%
EMEmc: 2 patents #1,324 of 3,345Top 40%
Seattle, WA: #1,903 of 21,776 inventorsTop 9%
Washington: #6,706 of 76,902 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Derek Richardson has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Deako. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in June 2025. Derek Richardson ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Derek Richardson in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2018.peak 42004: 1 patents20042009: 1 patents20092018: 4 patents20182020: 3 patents20202021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12333815 User-upgradeable load control Patrick Prendergast, Dana Olson 2025-06-17
12176660 Modular device backbone for a network of user-swappable products Patrick Prendergast, Kyle Montgomery 2024-12-24
11615625 User-upgradeable load control network Patrick Prendergast, Cole Wilson, Erik Anderson, Dana Olson 2023-03-28
11367288 User-upgradeable load control network Patrick Prendergast, Chris Keeser, Allen Stedman 2022-06-21
10961741 Portable confinement apparatus Heather Ling, Scott Ling 2021-03-30
10944220 Modular device backbone for a network of user-swappable products Patrick Prendergast, Kyle Montgomery 2021-03-09
10741960 System for controlling living space features Patrick Prendergast, Allen Stedman, Dan Blase, Chris Keeser 2020-08-11
10700477 Modular device backbone for a network of user-swappable products Patrick Prendergast, Kyle Montgomery 2020-06-30
10699131 User-upgradeable load control network Patrick Prendergast, Chris Keeser, Allen Stedman 2020-06-30
10153113 Systems and methods for occupancy prediction Patrick Prendergast, Cole Wilson, Erik Anderson, Dana Olson 2018-12-11
10078786 Occupancy sensing apparatus network Patrick Prendergast, Cole Wilson, Erik Anderson, Dana Olson 2018-09-18
10069235 Modular device control unit Dan Blase, Chris Keeser, Patrick Prendergast, Allen Stedman 2018-09-04
10063002 Configurable device control network Patrick Prendergast, Cole Wilson, Erik Anderson, Dana Olson 2018-08-28
7475203 Methods and systems for enabling non-destructive erasure of data Robert S. Petrillo, Jr., James M. Whynot, Gilbert K. Alipui 2009-01-06 $30,764,000
6687787 Configuration of a data storage system James Rowland 2004-02-03 $56,300,000