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James Dinkelacker — 10 Patents

NINiantic: 8 patents #12 of 121Top 10%
NCNetscape Communications: 2 patents #11 of 79Top 15%
Lahaina, HI: #4 of 38 inventorsTop 15%
Hawaii: #149 of 2,560 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
James Dinkelacker has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Niantic. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in June 2024. James Dinkelacker ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list James Dinkelacker in Lahaina, HI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2017.peak 42000: 1 patents20002002: 1 patents20022017: 4 patents20172019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents20212024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12005343 Placement of virtual elements in a virtual world associated with a location-based parallel reality game Keith P. Golden, Mark A. Aubin, John V. Hanke, Phillip Craig Keslin, Charles Spirakis +1 more 2024-06-11
11167205 Placement of virtual elements in a virtual world associated with a location-based parallel reality game Keith P. Golden, Mark A. Aubin, John V. Hanke, Phillip Craig Keslin, Charles Spirakis +1 more 2021-11-09
10646783 Linking real world activities with a parallel reality game Chris Hibbert, John V. Hanke, Phillip Craig Keslin, Leor Stern, Mark A. Aubin +4 more 2020-05-12
10486059 Placement of virtual elements in a virtual world associated with a location-based parallel reality game Keith P. Golden, Mark A. Aubin, John V. Hanke, Phillip Craig Keslin, Charles Spirakis +1 more 2019-11-26
9782668 Placement of virtual elements in a virtual world associated with a location-based parallel reality game Keith P. Golden, Mark A. Aubin, John V. Hanke, Phillip Craig Keslin, Charles Spirakis +1 more 2017-10-10
9669296 Linking real world activities with a parallel reality game Chris Hibbert, John V. Hanke, Phillip Craig Keslin, Lior Stern, Mark A. Aubin +4 more 2017-06-06
9604131 Systems and methods for verifying player proximity within a location-based game Keith Shoji Kiyohara, Chris Hibbert, Charles Spirakis, John V. Hanke, Phillip Craig Keslin 2017-03-28
9539498 Mapping real world actions to a virtual world associated with a location-based game John V. Hanke, Mark A. Aubin, Phillip Craig Keslin, Charles Spirakis 2017-01-10
6345284 Extraction and tagging control palette — 2002-02-05
6092068 Marked document tutor — 2000-07-18

Frequent Collaborators

Phillip Craig Keslin8 shared
Charles Spirakis8 shared
John V. Hanke8 shared
Mark A. Aubin7 shared
Keith P. Golden6 shared
Alexander Vladimirov4 shared

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