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Gregory Burns — 44 Patents

Qualcomm: 18 patents #1,243 of 12,104Top 15%
Microsoft: 13 patents #3,175 of 40,388Top 8%
Intel: 8 patents #4,914 of 30,777Top 20%
LSLsi: 2 patents #1,821 of 3,238Top 60%
Seattle, WA: #373 of 21,776 inventorsTop 2%
Washington: #1,423 of 76,902 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #66,838 of 4,157,543Top 2%
44 Patents All Time
Gregory Burns has been granted 44 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in February 2025. Gregory Burns ranks #66,838 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.6%). Patent records list Gregory Burns in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2001.peak 41999: 1 patents19992001: 4 patents2002: 1 patents2004: 2 patents20042006: 4 patents2007: 3 patents2008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents2011: 1 patents2013: 3 patents20132015: 2 patents2016: 4 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 3 patents2019: 2 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 3 patents2022: 2 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 44 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12218795 Internet of things Ned M. Smith, Keith Nolan, Mark Kelly, Michael Nolan, John Brady +15 more 2025-02-04
12059747 Laser cutter with assist gas mixer and method of mixing assist gases 2024-08-13
11770296 Decentralized data storage and processing for IoT devices Keith Nolan, Mark Kelly, Michael Nolan, Davide Carboni, John Brady +2 more 2023-09-26 $20,953,000
11431561 Internet of things Ned M. Smith, Keith Nolan, Mark Kelly, Michael Nolan, John Brady +15 more 2022-08-30 $13,077,000
11296937 Decentralized data storage and processing for IoT devices Keith Nolan, Mark Kelly, Michael Nolan, Davide Carboni, John Brady +2 more 2022-04-05 $18,322,000
11171940 Secure type-enforced actions Ned M. Smith 2021-11-09 $28,241,000
11128528 Decentralized data storage and processing for IoT devices Keith Nolan, Mark Kelly, Michael Nolan, Davide Carboni, John Brady +2 more 2021-09-21 $30,488,000
10924555 Transaction resources for stateless message protocol Ned M. Smith, Ravi Subramaniam 2021-02-16 $35,223,000
10742760 Neworking internet of things (IoT) devices Todd Malsbary 2020-08-11 $37,011,000
10320932 Conveying state changes using connectionless messaging and a store-and-forward cache Jack H. Profit, Craig M. Dowell 2019-06-11
10228020 Linear bearing apparatus and method of use 2019-03-12
9989942 Preemptively triggering a device action in an Internet of Things (IoT) environment based on a motion-based prediction of a user initiating the device action Sarah GLICKFIELD 2018-06-05 $12,691,000
9954679 Using end-user federated login to detect a breach in a key exchange encrypted channel Phil Tien Nguyen, Cameron A. McDonald 2018-04-24 $11,342,000
9935962 Method and system for onboarding wireless-enabled products in a network Christopher Kavas, Marcello Lioy, Kenneth Swinson, Todd Malsbary, Matthew Michael 2018-04-03 $7,863,000
9712491 Access control lists for private networks of system agnostic connected devices Joshua Hershberg, Phil Tien Nguyen, Fruma Adina Geffen 2017-07-18
9635124 Conveying state changes using connectionless messaging and a store-and-forward cache Jack H. Profit, Craig M. Dowell 2017-04-25
9584482 Access control lists for private networks of system agnostic connected devices Joshua Hershberg, Phil Tien Nguyen, Fruma Adina Geffen 2017-02-28
9444784 Apparatus and method of peer-to-peer communication Jack H. Profit 2016-09-13 $8,650,000
9438440 Proximity detection of internet of things (IoT) devices using sound chirps Marcello Lioy, Eric James Rongo 2016-09-06 $12,432,000
9420044 Leveraging system signaling service advertisements for application-layer discovery and connection management in an internet of things (IoT) environment Binita Gupta, Jack H. Profit 2016-08-16 $12,572,000
9363228 Apparatus and method of peer-to-peer communication Jack H. Profit 2016-06-07 $8,610,000
9148366 Interactive header compression in peer-to-peer communications 2015-09-29 $6,885,000
9043478 Methods and apparatus for using a distributed message bus for ad hoc peer-to-peer connectivity Jack H. Profit 2015-05-26 $10,104,000
8521540 Encoding and/or decoding digital signals using a permutation value Phillip Rutschman 2013-08-27 $7,643,000
8515350 Resolving an application service change in a system using bluetooth Steven J. Kinneberg, Jack H. Profit 2013-08-20 $7,622,000