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John A. Kelley — 75 Patents

PLPlantronics: 60 patents #1 of 433Top 1%
Motorola: 4 patents #3,253 of 14,142Top 25%
HP: 2 patents #7,666 of 16,619Top 50%
Honeywell: 2 patents #7,308 of 16,504Top 45%
Santa Cruz, CA: #27 of 1,911 inventorsTop 2%
California: #3,914 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #25,505 of 4,157,543Top 1%
75 Patents All Time
John A. Kelley has been granted 75 US patents while listed as an inventor at Plantronics. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in March 2025. John A. Kelley ranks #25,505 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.61%). Patent records list John A. Kelley in Santa Cruz, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 16 patents in 2021.peak 161984: 2 patents19841985: 1 patents1987: 2 patents1989: 1 patents19892001: 1 patents2004: 1 patents2005: 2 patents20052011: 3 patents2012: 4 patents2013: 4 patents20132014: 2 patents2016: 3 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 3 patents2019: 4 patents2020: 9 patents20202021: 16 patents2022: 6 patents2023: 8 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 75 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12244993 Wireless charging interface Jacob T. Meyberg Guzman, Nicholas W. Paterson, David Laniado Lacarra, Rogers Van Buren Clark, III, Roman M. Duran +4 more 2025-03-04
D1033404 Speakerphone Nicholas W. Paterson, Chase Patrick Bailey 2024-07-02
11805352 Wireless charging dock Jacob T. Meyberg Guzman, Nicholas W. Paterson, David Laniado Lacarra, Rogers Van Buren Clark, III, Roman M. Duran +4 more 2023-10-31
D1000428 Microphone unit 2023-10-03
D1000417 Communications headset Joseph Yang, Nicholas W. Paterson 2023-10-03
D997137 Speakerphone Nicholas W. Paterson, Chase Patrick Bailey 2023-08-29
11689836 Earloop microphone Jacob T. Meyberg Guzman, Nicholas W. Paterson, Iain McNeill 2023-06-27
11657457 User-modifiable interactive display of placement channel and status data Francis Joseph Sweeney, Christopher M. Collins 2023-05-23
D986216 Communications headset Nicholas W. Paterson 2023-05-16
11601741 Monaural headset with two earphones Jacob T. Meyberg Guzman, Darrin Caddes 2023-03-07
11496836 Headset with improved headband Matthew J Mainini, Stann Sheperd 2022-11-08
D961549 Communications headset Bowman Wang, Joseph Yang, Nicholas W. Paterson 2022-08-23
D961539 Videoconference device Chase Patrick Bailey, Bowman Wang, Nicholas W. Paterson, David Kim, Jeremy Jacob D'Ambrosio 2022-08-23
D961538 Videoconference device Bowman Wang, Chase Patrick Bailey, Nicholas W. Paterson, David Kim, Jeremy Jacob D'Ambrosio 2022-08-23
11233887 Headset with magnetic frictional coupler Jacob T. Meyberg Guzman, Barry J. Lee 2022-01-25
D940686 Communications headset Joseph Yang, Gary T. Brint, Nicholas W. Paterson 2022-01-11
D938380 Videoconference device Bowman Wang, Chase Patrick Bailey, Nicholas W. Paterson, David Kim, Jeremy Jacob D'Ambrosio 2021-12-14
D937798 Videoconference device Chase Patrick Bailey, Bowman Wang, Nicholas W. Paterson, David Kim, Jeremy Jacob D'Ambrosio 2021-12-07
D933637 Base cradle for a communications headset 2021-10-19
11109141 Seamless pivot for head-worn audio devices Erik Tews, Nicholas W. Paterson 2021-08-31
D928107 Videoconference device Bowman Wang, Chase Patrick Bailey, Nicholas W. Paterson, David Kim, Jeremy Jacob D'Ambrosio 2021-08-17
D927452 Communications headset or headphone Nicholas W. Paterson 2021-08-10
D927451 Communications headset Nicholas W. Paterson, Bowman Wang, Joseph Yang 2021-08-10
D927441 Videoconference device Chase Patrick Bailey, Bowman Wang, Nicholas W. Paterson, David Kim, Jeremy Jacob D'Ambrosio 2021-08-10
D927456 Microphone boom for a communications headset Nicholas W. Paterson 2021-08-10