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Alanson P. Sample — 29 Patents

Disney: 16 patents #438 of 6,686Top 7%
Intel: 8 patents #4,914 of 30,777Top 20%
YUYale University: 2 patents #418 of 1,662Top 30%
UWUniversity Of Washington: 2 patents #544 of 2,234Top 25%
CUCarnegie Mellon University: 1 patents #637 of 1,507Top 45%
Seattle, WA: #751 of 21,776 inventorsTop 4%
Washington: #2,710 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
Alanson P. Sample has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at Disney. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in November 2025. Alanson P. Sample ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list Alanson P. Sample in Seattle, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12474831 Leveraging surface acoustic wave for detecting gestures Yasha IRAVANTCHI 2025-11-18
11722017 Wireless power delivery in dynamic environments Joshua R. Smith, Benjamin H. Waters, Scott Wisdom 2023-08-08
11132051 Systems and methods to provide an interactive environment in response to touch-based inputs Robert Sumner, Benjamin Buergisser, Fabio Zünd, Gergely Vakulya, Virag Varga +1 more 2021-09-28 $348,270,000
11090481 Wireless power delivery in dynamic environments Joshua R. Smith, Benjamin H. Waters, Scott Wisdom 2021-08-17
10915796 ID association and indoor localization via passive phased-array and computer vision motion correlation Chouchang Yang 2021-02-09 $275,799,000
10819151 Wireless power transmission Matthew J. Chabalko 2020-10-27 $136,891,000
10707685 Resonant cavity mode enabled wireless power transfer Matthew J. Chabalko 2020-07-07 $193,060,000
10366118 EM-ID: tag-less identification of electrical devices via electromagnetic emissions Chouchang Yang 2019-07-30 $573,798,000
10360420 Systems and methods for enabling user interactions with wireless tags Hanchuan Li, Josh Fromm, Scott E. Hudson, Eric Brockmeyer, Elizabeth Carter +1 more 2019-07-23 $129,997,000
10353526 Room-scale interactive and context-aware sensing Chouchang Yang, Yang Zhang 2019-07-16 $370,862,000
10326535 Communication through modulated electromagnetic emissions Chouchang Yang 2019-06-18 $1,093,491,000
10230167 Electromagnetic time reversal focusing of near field waves in metamaterials Matthew J. Chabalko 2019-03-12 $141,713,000
10223850 High-Q and over-coupled near-field RFID reader antenna for improved tag read range 2019-03-05 $154,919,000
10165355 System and method for data transmission and power supply capability over an audio jack for mobile devices Indira Negi, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Brian K. Vogel, Darren Crews, Sai Hemachandra Vemprala +3 more 2018-12-25
10127417 Systems and methods for determining interaction states of wireless tags based on probability distributions James McCann, Andrew Spielberg, Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff 2018-11-13 $336,112,000
10102697 High-Q and over-coupled near-field RFID reader antenna for improved tag read range 2018-10-16 $227,417,000
10013589 Systems and methods for enabling user interactions with wireless tags Hanchuan Li, Josh Fromm, Scott E. Hudson, Eric Brockmeyer, Elizabeth Carter +1 more 2018-07-03 $153,016,000
9881273 Automatic object detection and state estimation via electronic emissions sensing Chouchang Yang, Gierad Laput, Robert Bo Xiao, Christopher Harrison 2018-01-30
9805233 Systems and methods for following distinguishing members using tags in combination with a localizing device Hanchuan Li, Samer Al Moubayed 2017-10-31 $54,657,000
9805232 Systems and methods for detecting human-object interactions Hanchuan Li 2017-10-31 $54,657,000
9537346 Extendable wireless power delivery for small devices Emily B. Cooper, Joshua R. Smith, John C. Neumann 2017-01-03 $8,191,000
9473209 Wireless power transfer apparatus and method thereof Emily B. Cooper, Joshua R. Smith 2016-10-18 $9,528,000
9461478 Wireless power transfer apparatus and method thereof Joshua R. Smith 2016-10-04 $11,494,000
9415149 Method and system for powering implantable devices Joshua R. Smith, Pramod Bonde, Benjamin H. Waters 2016-08-16
9378446 Solar powered RFID tags and method of manufacture therefore Yuri A. Sylvester 2016-06-28 $11,945,000