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Nathan B. Zerbe — 5 Patents

DIDirectv: 4 patents #186 of 679Top 30%
HLHughes Electronics Limited: 1 patents #605 of 1,474Top 45%
Plymouth, MN: #457 of 1,545 inventorsTop 30%
Minnesota: #13,707 of 52,454 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Nathan B. Zerbe has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Directv. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in March 2015. Nathan B. Zerbe ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Nathan B. Zerbe in Plymouth, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1999.peak 11999: 1 patents19992006: 1 patents20062011: 1 patents20112014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8997157 Audio/video satellite broadcast network Harish N. Patel, Daniel A. Lotocky, Thomas H. James 2015-03-31 $83,719,000
8732770 Direct broadcast signal distribution methods Thomas H. James 2014-05-20 $101,043,000
7954127 Direct broadcast signal distribution methods Thomas H. James 2011-05-31 $50,541,000
6985530 Integrated receiver decoder and method for simultaneously transmitting compressed and uncompressed signals 2006-01-10 $21,031,000
5903237 Antenna pointing aid Jeffrey Will Crosby 1999-05-11