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Steve Sullivan — 40 Patents

Disney: 34 patents #154 of 6,686Top 3%
Microsoft: 3 patents #13,486 of 40,388Top 35%
Redmond, WA: #181 of 8,547 inventorsTop 3%
Washington: #1,647 of 76,902 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Steve Sullivan has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Disney. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in March 2021. Steve Sullivan ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Steve Sullivan in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2014.peak 62003: 1 patents20032009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents2012: 5 patents20122013: 3 patents2014: 6 patents20142015: 4 patents2016: 6 patents20162017: 5 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 2 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10964083 Facial animation models Kiran S. Bhat, Michael Koperwas, Rachel Rose, Jung-Seung Hong, Frederic P. Pighin +2 more 2021-03-30
10762599 Constrained virtual camera control 2020-09-01
10269165 Facial animation models Kiran S. Bhat, Michael Koperwas, Rachel Rose, Jung-Seung Hong, Frederic P. Pighin +2 more 2019-04-23
10269169 Three-dimensional motion capture Colin Davidson, Michael Sanders, Kevin Wooley 2019-04-23
10163247 Context-adaptive allocation of render model resources Alvaro Collet Romea, Ming-Dao Chuang, Pat Sweeney 2018-12-25
10142561 Virtual-scene control device Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Michael Sanders, Kevin Wooley, Adam Schnitzer 2018-11-27
9781354 Controlling a virtual camera Kevin Wooley, Michael Sanders, Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Brian Cantwell 2017-10-03
9665978 Consistent tessellation via topology-aware surface tracking Ming-Dao Chuang, Alvaro Collet Romea, Pat Sweeney, Don Gillett 2017-05-30 $44,969,000
9646410 Mixed three dimensional scene reconstruction from plural surface models Alvaro Collet Romea, Adam G. Kirk 2017-05-09 $28,083,000
9626786 Virtual-scene control device Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Michael Sanders, Kevin Wooley, Adam Schnitzer 2017-04-18
9558578 Animation environment Adam Schnitzer, Max Chen, Domenico Porcino, Louise Rasmussen, Greg James +2 more 2017-01-31
9424679 Three-dimensional motion capture Colin Davidson, Michael Sanders, Kevin Wooley 2016-08-23
9401025 Visual and physical motion sensing for three-dimensional motion capture Kevin Wooley, Brett A. Allen, Michael Sanders 2016-07-26
9342912 Animation control retargeting Frederic P. Pighin, Cary Phillips 2016-05-17
9324179 Controlling a virtual camera Kevin Wooley, Michael Sanders, Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Brian Cantwell 2016-04-26
D751878 Specialty tool 2016-03-22
9256973 Controlling animated character expression Michael Koperwas, Frederic P. Pighin, Cary Phillips, Eduardo Hueso 2016-02-09
9142024 Visual and physical motion sensing for three-dimensional motion capture Kevin Wooley, Brett A. Allen, Michael Sanders 2015-09-22
8964052 Controlling a virtual camera Kevin Wooley, Michael Sanders, Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Brian Cantwell 2015-02-24
8941665 Model production for animation libraries Francesco G. Callari 2015-01-27
8928674 Combining multiple session content for animation libraries Francesco G. Callari 2015-01-06
8908960 Three-dimensional motion capture Colin Davidson, Michael Sanders, Kevin Wooley 2014-12-09
8854376 Generating animation from actor performance Kiran S. Bhat, Frederic P. Pighin, Michael Koperwas 2014-10-07
8698735 Constrained virtual camera control 2014-04-15
8681158 Using animation libraries for object identification Francesco G. Callari 2014-03-25