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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Bruce Rutherford — 15 Patents

Mastercard: 13 patents #72 of 2,005Top 4%
Visa: 3 patents #626 of 2,009Top 35%
IAIvoclar Vivadent Ag: 1 patents #208 of 359Top 60%
Stamford, CT: #99 of 1,447 inventorsTop 7%
Connecticut: #2,943 of 34,797 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Bruce Rutherford has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Mastercard. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in January 2025. Bruce Rutherford ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Bruce Rutherford in Stamford, CT, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2011.peak 22005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072010: 1 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162021: 1 patents2022: 2 patents20222023: 2 patents2024: 1 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12205110 Network token system Glenn Powell, John F. Sheets, Gregory Williamson, James Anderson 2025-01-21
11868984 Method and system for contactless transmission using off-the-shelf devices Alan Mushing, Fernando Lourenco 2024-01-09 $250,271,000
11748741 Payment card storing tokenized information Mark Lulic 2023-09-05 $329,784,000
11710119 Network token system Glenn Powell, John F. Sheets, Gregory Williamson, James Anderson 2023-07-25 $144,857,000
11392925 Method and system for contactless transmissions using off-the-shelf devices Alan Mushing, Fernando Lourenco 2022-07-19 $310,965,000
11244296 Method and system for authentication via a trusted execution environment Prashant Sharma, David Cutler, Alan Mushing 2022-02-08 $512,388,000
10891610 Network token system Glenn Powell, John F. Sheets, Gregory Williamson, James Anderson 2021-01-12 $1,394,779,000
9514458 Customer authentication in E-commerce transactions Alfred Dagher, Mark Wiseman, Didier Jean Marie Charles Paie, Jean-Paul Edmond Rans, Fikret Ates +1 more 2016-12-06 $184,382,000
8317090 Methods and systems for performing a financial transaction Mark B. Wiesman, Art Kranzley, Stephen Orfei 2012-11-27 $83,803,000
8071131 Mineralizing composite materials for restoring teeth 2011-12-06
7983987 System and method for conducting secure payment transaction Arthur D. Kranzley, Stephen Orfei 2011-07-19 $225,636,000
7801825 Systems and methods for conducting secure payment transactions using a formatted data structure Arthur D. Kranzley, Stephen Orfei, Mark Wiseman 2010-09-21 $174,927,000
7309232 Methods for treating dental conditions using tissue scaffolds Christopher Somogyi, Clinton White, Erick Rabins 2007-12-18
7058611 Method and system for conducting secure electronic commerce transactions with authorization request data loop-back Arthur D. Kranzley, Stephen Orfei, John Wankmueller 2006-06-06
6915279 System and method for conducting secure payment transactions Edward J. Hogan, Carl M. Campbell, Arthur D. Kranzley, Stephen Orfei 2005-07-05