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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Mark Watson — 113 Patents

Netflix: 37 patents #2 of 498Top 1%
Qualcomm: 21 patents #1,078 of 12,104Top 9%
DFDigital Fountain: 13 patents #4 of 40Top 10%
MTMks Technology: 8 patents #3 of 7Top 45%
WUWashington University: 8 patents #60 of 1,596Top 4%
INIn-Situ: 5 patents #17 of 119Top 15%
INIntevac: 2 patents #32 of 113Top 30%
AMAmoco: 1 patents #610 of 1,251Top 50%
MIMr Instruments: 1 patents #12 of 15Top 80%
BBBrk Brands: 1 patents #34 of 59Top 60%
QIQwest Communications Int'L.: 1 patents #3 of 30Top 10%
UWUniversity Of Wyoming: 1 patents #106 of 242Top 45%
AGAqseptence Group: 1 patents #22 of 32Top 70%
Alcatel Lucent: 1 patents #2,436 of 4,169Top 60%
JSJohnson Screens: 1 patents #4 of 16Top 25%
San Francisco, CA: #117 of 26,999 inventorsTop 1%
California: #1,788 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #11,295 of 4,157,543Top 1%
113 Patents All Time
Mark Watson has been granted 113 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netflix. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in December 2025. Mark Watson ranks #11,295 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.27%). Patent records list Mark Watson in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 16 patents in 2016.peak 161992: 1 patents19921994: 1 patents1997: 1 patents1999: 4 patents19992001: 2 patents2002: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 2 patents2005: 2 patents2006: 2 patents20062008: 2 patents2009: 1 patents2010: 3 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 3 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 3 patents2015: 10 patents2016: 16 patents20162017: 4 patents2018: 4 patents2019: 6 patents20192020: 5 patents2021: 3 patents2022: 9 patents20222023: 6 patents2024: 6 patents2025: 9 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 113 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12498270 Multi-dispersive spectrometer Quaid Vohra, Celestin Zemtsop 2025-12-16
12491455 Advanced passive wedge wire screen intake Michael Ekholm, Daryn Bertelson, Spencer BUSS, Klaus Heil, Nadine LACROSSE +2 more 2025-12-09
12438813 Techniques for network congestion control Paul-Louis Ageneau 2025-10-07
12407895 Temporal placement of a rebuffering event Ioannis Katsavounidis, Aaron Hipple, Will Wolcott 2025-09-02
12382118 Staggered key frame video encoding Aditya Mavlankar, Ioannis Katsavounidis 2025-08-05
12301920 Audio transitions when streaming audiovisual media titles 2025-05-13
12262081 Systems and methods for splicing targeted content into live broadcast streams with targeted content breaks of unknown placement and duration Flavio Ribeiro Nogueira Barbosa, Wei Wei 2025-03-25
12247880 Spectrometer Keith Carron, Shane Buller, Sean Patrick Woodward 2025-03-11
12238395 Dynamic topology generation for branching narratives Maxine Cheung, Carla Christine Fisher, Kevin Pei-Wen Lee, Yves Raimond 2025-02-25
12155715 Enhanced block-request streaming using block partitioning or request controls for improved client-side handling Michael G. Luby, Lorenzo Vicisano, Payam Pakzad, Bin Wang 2024-11-26 $20,218,000
12061676 Fast-expiring licenses used to speculatively authorize access to streaming media content Anthony Neal Park, Mitch Zollinger 2024-08-13 $2,026,453,000
11973996 Staggered key frame video encoding Aditya Mavlankar, Ioannis Katsavounidis 2024-04-30 $2,031,957,000
11917271 Techniques for advancing playback of interactive media titles in response to user selections 2024-02-27 $2,150,105,000
11874167 Spectrometer Shane Buller, Keith Carron 2024-01-16
11863814 Temporal placement of a rebuffering event Ioannis Katsavounidis, Aaron Hipple, Will Wolcott 2024-01-02 $564,665,000
11770565 Global approach to buffering media content 2023-09-26 $1,516,537,000
11770432 Enhanced block-request streaming system for handling low-latency streaming Michael G. Luby, Lorenzo Vicisano, Payam Pakzad, Bin Wang, Thomas Stockhammer +1 more 2023-09-26 $13,508,000
11743317 Enhanced block-request streaming using block partitioning or request controls for improved client-side handling Michael G. Luby, Lorenzo Vicisano, Payam Pakzad, Bin Wang 2023-08-29 $8,546,000
11700415 Audio transitions when streaming audiovisual media titles 2023-07-11 $608,414,000
11696002 Dynamic topology generation for branching narratives Maxine Cheung, Carla Christine Fisher, Kevin Pei-Wen Lee, Yves Raimond 2023-07-04
11593459 Fast-expiring licenses used to speculatively authorize access to streaming media content Anthony Neal Park, Mitch Zollinger 2023-02-28 $897,694,000
11503264 Techniques for modifying audiovisual media titles to improve audio transitions 2022-11-15 $915,424,000
11477253 Enhanced block-request streaming system using signaling or block creation Michael G. Luby, Lorenzo Vicisano, Payam Pakzad, Bin Wang, Ying Chen +1 more 2022-10-18 $19,213,000
11441948 Multi-dispersive spectrometer Quaid Vohra, Celestin Zemtsop 2022-09-13
11388472 Temporal placement of a rebuffering event Ioannis Katsavounidis, Aaron Hipple, Will Wolcott 2022-07-12 $997,266,000