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Ned Hoffman — 57 Patents

INIndivos: 13 patents #3 of 4Top 75%
SMSmarttouch: 9 patents #2 of 9Top 25%
YAYt Acquisition: 7 patents #6 of 21Top 30%
ONOpen Invention Network Llc Nc: 6 patents #67 of 251Top 30%
EPEdge Mobile Payments: 1 patents #4 of 4Top 100%
Sebastopol, CA: #2 of 246 inventorsTop 1%
California: #6,412 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #42,642 of 4,157,543Top 2%
57 Patents All Time
Ned Hoffman has been granted 57 US patents while listed as an inventor at Indivos. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in November 2025. Ned Hoffman ranks #42,642 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.0%). Patent records list Ned Hoffman in Sebastopol, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 1998.peak 61990: 1 patents19901991: 1 patents1995: 2 patents1996: 2 patents19961997: 3 patents1998: 6 patents1999: 2 patents19992000: 2 patents2001: 3 patents2002: 2 patents20022003: 3 patents2005: 5 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 1 patents2009: 6 patents20092010: 1 patents2011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 3 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 2 patents2018: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192022: 1 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 57 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
D1100786 Windshield wiper 2025-11-04
12417462 System and method for web-based payments 2025-09-16
11288666 System and method for real-time processing of on-line financial transactions using a universal financial token and a remotely located rule-module clearinghouse 2022-03-29
10375065 System and method for tokenless biometric authorization of electronic communications 2019-08-06
10039693 Acupressure apparatus 2018-08-07
9294481 System and method for tokenless biometric authorization of electronic communications 2016-03-22
9242137 Door-mounted exercise apparatus 2016-01-26
9084914 Door mounted exercise apparatus 2015-07-21
8831994 System and method for tokenless biometric authorization of electronic communications 2014-09-09
8768838 Financial transactions using a rule-module nexus and a user account registry 2014-07-01
8639629 System and method for accessing an online user account registry via a thin-client unique user code 2014-01-28
8463710 System and method for processing tokenless biometric electronic transmissions using an electronic rule module clearinghouse Philip Dean Lapsley 2013-06-11
8260716 System and method for processing tokenless biometric electronic transmissions using an electronic rule module clearinghouse Philip Dean Lapsley 2012-09-04
7882032 System and method for tokenless biometric authorization of electronic communications 2011-02-01
7698567 System and method for tokenless biometric electronic scrip 2010-04-13
7631193 Tokenless identification system for authorization of electronic transactions and electronic transmissions 2009-12-08
7620605 System and method for processing tokenless biometric electronic transmissions using an electronic rule module clearinghouse Philip Dean Lapsley 2009-11-17
7613659 System and method for processing tokenless biometric electronic transmissions using an electronic rule module clearinghouse Philip Dean Lapsley 2009-11-03
7606401 System and method for processing tokenless biometric electronic transmissions using an electronic rule module clearinghouse Philip Dean Lapsley 2009-10-20
7558407 Tokenless electronic transaction system David Ferrin Pare, Jr., Jonathan Alexander Lee 2009-07-07
7536352 Tokenless biometric electronic financial transactions via a third party identicator Philip Dean Lapsley, Jonathan Alexander Lee, David Ferrin Pare, Jr. 2009-05-19
7319987 Tokenless financial access system David Ferrin Pare, Jr., Jonathan Alexander Lee, Philip Dean Lapsley 2008-01-15
7248719 Tokenless electronic transaction system David Ferrin Pare, Jr., Jonathan Alexander Lee 2007-07-24
7152045 Tokenless identification system for authorization of electronic transactions and electronic transmissions 2006-12-19
6985608 Tokenless electronic transaction system David Ferrin Pare, Jr., Jonathan Alexander Lee 2006-01-10