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Colin Tanner — 32 Patents

Mastercard: 30 patents #17 of 2,005Top 1%
ASAktiebolaget Skf: 1 patents #798 of 1,598Top 50%
ICIna Bearing Company: 1 patents #5 of 10Top 50%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Colin Tanner has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Mastercard. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in October 2021. Colin Tanner ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Colin Tanner in Ruislip, PA, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2014.peak 41987: 1 patents19872009: 2 patents2010: 3 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 2 patents2014: 4 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 4 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 3 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 4 patents20202021: 2 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11157889 Methods and systems for prepaid mobile payment staging accounts Christina E. Sheppard, John Mwangi 2021-10-26 $160,646,000
10956899 Mechanism to allow the use of disposable cards on a system designed to accept cards conforming to the standards of the global payments industry Michael J. Cowen, James Sinton 2021-03-23 $231,144,000
10740836 Apparatus and method for dynamic offline balance management for preauthorized smart cards Aaron Baker 2020-08-11 $181,870,000
10692081 Local management of payment transactions Richard Burdett 2020-06-23 $271,603,000
10586224 Methods and systems for prepaid mobile payment staging accounts Christina E. Sheppard, John Mwangi 2020-03-10 $213,803,000
10572873 Method and system for the transmission of authenticated authorization requests David Anthony Roberts, Susan Thompson, Clive Leader 2020-02-25 $244,973,000
10445717 System and methods for issuance of a mobile payment account Christina E. Sheppard, Germán Blanco 2019-10-15 $186,436,000
9978054 Acceptance quality improvement using localization data to adjust contactless payment Ian David Alan Maddocks, David Anthony Roberts 2018-05-22 $164,463,000
9916576 In-market personalization of payment devices Paul Michael Evans, Theresa L. Smith 2018-03-13 $140,123,000
9911154 Apparatus and method for dynamic offline balance management for preauthorized smart cards Aaron Baker 2018-03-06 $261,768,000
9787476 Image verification by an electronic device David J. Sylvester 2017-10-10 $94,078,000
9762291 Methods and apparatus for consumer testing of an NFC device Aaron Concannon, Kuljot Singh Anand, Anthony Lopreiato 2017-09-12 $103,592,000
9542673 Methods and systems for prepaid mobile payment staging accounts Christina E. Sheppard, John Mwangi 2017-01-10 $137,467,000
9531549 Image verification by an electronic device David J. Sylvester 2016-12-27 $127,964,000
9396496 Methods, apparatus, computer program products and articles for use in providing human understandable indication of account balance Richard Burdett, Christopher Leech 2016-07-19 $334,014,000
9356710 Methods and apparatus for consumer testing of an NFC device Aaron Concannon, Kuljot Singh Anand, Anthony Lopreiato 2016-05-31 $288,492,000
9237465 Systems, apparatus and methods for consumer testing of an NFC-enabled mobile device John Mwangi, Kuljot Singh Anand 2016-01-12 $300,992,000
9172539 In-market personalization of payment devices Paul Michael Evans, Theresa L. Smith 2015-10-27 $413,843,000
8812402 Methods, apparatus and articles for use in association with token Paul Michael Evans 2014-08-19 $83,737,000
8775310 Method, apparatus, and computer program product for allowing payment cards issued for only limited duration use to be reused multiple times to reduce the overall cost of issuance Lukas Ekselius 2014-07-08
8744965 Fund sharing method and apparatus Germán Blanco, Theresa L. Smith 2014-06-03 $114,250,000
8684261 Methods, apparatus, computer program products and articles for use in providing human understandable indication of account balance Richard Burdett, Chris Leech 2014-04-01 $315,933,000
8548914 Method and system for photo identification in a payment card transaction James Sinton 2013-10-01 $83,533,000
8490880 Proximity payment device with active switch Duncan Garrett, David Anthony Roberts 2013-07-23 $206,282,000
8314702 Methods and systems for activating a proximity information device Duncan Garrett, David Anthony Roberts 2012-11-20 $246,083,000