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Robert Sumner — 51 Patents

Disney: 52 patents #81 of 6,686Top 2%
EZEth Zërich: 4 patents #9 of 184Top 5%
EZEth Zurich: 3 patents #31 of 584Top 6%
EZEidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich: 1 patents #65 of 206Top 35%
Zürich, CH: #16 of 3,852 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #51,932 of 4,157,543Top 2%
51 Patents All Time
Robert Sumner has been granted 51 US patents while listed as an inventor at Disney. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in August 2025. Robert Sumner ranks #51,932 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Robert Sumner in Zürich, CH.

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Showing 1–25 of 51 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12387437 Automated image augmentation using a virtual character Martin Guay, Gökcen Cimen, Christoph Maurhofer, Mattia Ryffel 2025-08-12
11704853 Techniques for feature-based neural rendering Dominik Tobias BORER, Martin Guay, Jakob Joachim BUHMANN 2023-07-18 $231,413,000
11683662 Location-based interactive storytelling Manuel Braunschweiler, Steven Poulakos, Mattia Ryffel 2023-06-20 $310,504,000
11628374 Virtual puppeteering using a portable device Raphael Anderegg, Loïc Florian Ciccone 2023-04-18 $496,808,000
11600047 Automated image augmentation using a virtual character Martin Guay, Gökcen Cimen, Christoph Maurhofer, Mattia Ryffel 2023-03-07 $251,146,000
11445332 Location-based interactive storytelling Manuel Braunschweiler, Steven Poulakos, Mattia Ryffel 2022-09-13 $1,074,959,000
11335051 Parameterized animation modifications Alba Maria Rios Rodriguez, Maurizio Nitti, Mattia Ryffel, Steven Poulakos 2022-05-17 $230,267,000
11132051 Systems and methods to provide an interactive environment in response to touch-based inputs Benjamin Buergisser, Fabio Zünd, Gergely Vakulya, Virag Varga, Thomas R. Gross +1 more 2021-09-28 $348,270,000
11087517 Sketch-based abstraction for character posing and synthesis Maurizio Nitti, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Fabian Hahn, Markus Gross +1 more 2021-08-10 $445,166,000
10916046 Joint estimation from images Martin Guay, Dominik Tobias BORER, Ahmet Cengiz Öztireli, Jakob Joachim BUHMANN 2021-02-09 $275,799,000
10885708 Automated costume augmentation using shape estimation Martin Guay, Gökcen Cimen, Christoph Maurhofer, Mattia Ryffel 2021-01-05 $403,321,000
10783689 Systems and methods for generating event-centric animations using a graphical user interface Alexander Shoulson, Mubbasir Kapadia 2020-09-22 $182,936,000
10726628 Deformable-surface tracking based augmented reality image generation Dat Tien Ngo, Maurizio Nitti, Alessia Marra, Stephane Magnenat, Mattia Ryffel 2020-07-28 $80,208,000
10713832 Precomputed environment semantics for contact-rich character animation Xu Xianghao, Stelian Coros, Mubbasir Kapadia 2020-07-14 $658,581,000
10553009 Automatically generating quadruped locomotion controllers Martin Guay, Moritz Geilinger, Stelian Coros, Ye Yuan 2020-02-04 $243,341,000
10445940 Modeling interactions between simulated characters and real-world objects for more realistic augmented reality Martin Guay, Gökcen Cimen, Dominik Tobias BORER, Simone GUGGIARI, Ye Yuan +1 more 2019-10-15 $123,050,000
10373379 Deformable-surface tracking based augmented reality image generation Dat Tien Ngo, Maurizio Nitti, Alessia Marra, Stephane Magnenat, Mattia Ryffel 2019-08-06 $168,722,000
10359906 Haptic interface for population of a three-dimensional virtual environment Gioacchino Noris 2019-07-23 $129,997,000
10282882 Augmented reality simulation continuum Kenneth J. Mitchell, Rafael C. Hostettler, Stelian Coros 2019-05-07 $377,504,000
10262642 Augmented reality music composition Fabio Zünd, Alessia Marra, Maurizio Nitti, Mattia Ryffel 2019-04-16 $180,209,000
10217289 Augmented reality device with predefined object data Kenneth J. Mitchell 2019-02-26 $119,074,000
10171785 Color balancing based on reference points Alexander Sorkine Hornung, Thomas Oskam 2019-01-01
10067775 Guided authoring of interactive content Mubbasir Kapadia, Fabio Zünd 2018-09-04 $63,010,000
10042506 Interactive story development system and method for creating a narrative of a storyline Mubbasir Kapadia, Alexander Shoulson 2018-08-07 $130,188,000
9947124 Motion control of active deformable objects Stelian Coros, Sebastian Martin, Bernhard Thomaszewski 2018-04-17 $116,028,000