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James Hicks — 3 Patents

Mastercard: 1 patents #1,122 of 2,005Top 60%
Gilmer, TX: #7 of 27 inventorsTop 30%
Texas: #41,402 of 125,132 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,328,092 of 4,157,543Top 35%
3 Patents All Time
James Hicks has been granted 3 US patents while listed as an inventor at Mastercard. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in October 2023. James Hicks ranks #1,328,092 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 31.9%). Patent records list James Hicks in Gilmer, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1986.peak 11986: 1 patents19862001: 1 patents20012023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–3 of 3 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11803839 Provisioning of payment acceptance to payment account holders Prashant Sharma, Zahir Khoja, Ashwin Chandrasekaran, Philip Wei Ping Yen 2023-10-31 $136,781,000
6226923 Tilt window with deflection-reducing feature Robert Leroy McKeel 2001-05-08
4567735 Column type evaporator for ice machines 1986-02-04