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Theodore Shaffer — 4 Patents

DIDirectv: 3 patents #225 of 679Top 35%
ATAT&T: 1 patents #10,636 of 18,772Top 60%
Los Altos Hills, CA: #404 of 812 inventorsTop 50%
California: #126,026 of 386,348 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Theodore Shaffer has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Directv. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in August 2017. Theodore Shaffer ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Theodore Shaffer in Los Altos Hills, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2016.peak 21991: 1 patents19912016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9743147 Network video unit Mark Goodwin 2017-08-22
9467746 Network video unit Mark Goodwin 2016-10-11
9426531 Network video unit Mark Goodwin 2016-08-23
5065309 Personal computer note-taking facility William Hutchinson PUTNAM, III 1991-11-12

Frequent Collaborators

Mark Goodwin3 shared
William Hutchinson PUTNAM, III1 shared

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