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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Michael Merz — 29 Patents

GRGroupon: 4 patents #164 of 502Top 35%
HDHeidelberg Druckmaschinen: 4 patents #332 of 1,510Top 25%
Microsoft: 3 patents #13,486 of 40,388Top 35%
DGDuran Group Gmbh: 2 patents #2 of 6Top 35%
DGDurferrit Gmbh: 1 patents #2 of 6Top 35%
HAHilti Aktiengesellschaft: 1 patents #789 of 1,466Top 55%
SASensirion Ag: 1 patents #67 of 140Top 50%
BYBytedance: 1 patents #113 of 322Top 40%
Bellevue, WA: #347 of 6,950 inventorsTop 5%
Washington: #2,710 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
Michael Merz has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at Groupon. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in July 2025. Michael Merz ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list Michael Merz in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2002.peak 42002: 4 patents20022003: 4 patents2004: 1 patents20042008: 2 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 2 patents2015: 1 patents20152017: 2 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 2 patents2022: 2 patents20222024: 2 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12354136 Motion data based consumer interfaces John Blanchard, Vinayak Hegde, Daidrie Berry, Jairo Da Silva, Juan Pablo Podlech +1 more 2025-07-08
11979503 Method for a secure transmission, and method for a secure bidirectional exchange of electronic data packets in a network Matthias Jugel 2024-05-07
11953486 Total organic carbon sensor utilizing down conversion Raffaele DI GIACOMO, Matthias Streiff, Nicolas MOELLER 2024-04-09
11379871 Method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing real time incentives Kevin Jungmeisteris, Brandon Arp, Selvam Velmurugan, Abhishek Prasad 2022-07-05 $1,133,000
11244356 Motion data based consumer interfaces John Blanchard, Vinayak Hegde, Daidrie Berry, Jairo Da Silva, Juan Pablo Podlech +1 more 2022-02-08 $2,079,000
10762534 Motion data based consumer interfaces John Blanchard, Vinayak Hegde, Daidrie Berry, Jairo Da Silva, Juan Pablo Podlech +1 more 2020-09-01 $25,716,000
PP31542 Carex plant named ‘MMCream’ 2020-03-10
10304077 Method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing real time incentives Kevin Jungmeisteris, Brandon Arp, Selvam Velmurugan, Abhishek Prasad 2019-05-28 $4,923,000
PP30414 Liriope plant named ‘Fan Dancer’ 2019-04-16
PP27885 Geranium plant named ‘Boo’ 2017-04-11
D779949 Sealing ring for a bottle 2017-02-28
D744846 Bottle with cap Norbert Koop 2015-12-08
8606804 Runtime-defined dynamic queries Alexander N. Samoylenko 2013-12-10 $31,292,000
8370851 Conversational parallelism for message processing Ashok Srinivasan, Rohit Kapoor, Vinod Kumar 2013-02-05 $10,554,000
8291433 Unified, configurable services stack for integration of enterprise applications Ashok Srinivasan, Alexander N. Samoylenko, Vinod Kumar 2012-10-16 $18,516,000
8208871 Hand held, ergonomic grip having a portable telephone device removably coupled thereto 2012-06-26
8083866 Method for hardening the surfaces of work pieces made of stainless steel, and a molten salt bath for realizing the method Ulrich Baudis 2011-12-27
PP21239 Cortaderia plant named ‘golden goblin’ 2010-08-24
7337691 Parallel kinematics mechanism with a concentric spherical joint Shambhu N. Roy 2008-03-04
7331750 Parallel robot Shambhu N. Roy 2008-02-19
6818149 Ligand and complex for catalytically bleaching a substrate Heidi Boerzel, Peter Comba, Ronald Hage, Marion Kerscher, Joachim Lienke 2004-11-16 $5,303,000
6648583 Parallel kinematics mechanism with a concentric spherical joint Shambhu N. Roy 2003-11-18
6619199 Printing machine with torque compensation Karl-Heinz Helmstadter 2003-09-16
6602042 Parallel kinematics mechanism with a concentric spherical joint Shambhu N. Roy 2003-08-05
6547013 Screw driving tool Reinhard Riedl, Manfred Ludwig 2003-04-15