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John Hillan — 42 Patents

Qualcomm: 40 patents #589 of 12,104Top 5%
PSPacific Communication Sciences: 1 patents #19 of 47Top 45%
TITexas Instruments: 1 patents #7,388 of 12,488Top 60%
Overall (All Time): #72,062 of 4,157,543Top 2%
42 Patents All Time
John Hillan has been granted 42 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in October 2023. John Hillan ranks #72,062 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list John Hillan in Farnborough, CA, GB.

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Showing 1–25 of 42 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11791866 Systems and methods for device coexistence 2023-10-17 $7,437,000
11363455 Near field communication forum data exchange format (NDEF) messages with authenticated encryption 2022-06-14 $16,981,000
11272358 Near field communication forum data exchange format (NDEF) messages 2022-03-08 $26,863,000
10812262 Performing a key agreement recovery procedure Jeremy R. O'Donoghue 2020-10-20 $33,725,000
10690762 Systems and methods for determining an upper bound on the distance between devices Jeremy R. O'Donoghue, Stephen Frankland 2020-06-23 $21,879,000
10645651 Methods and apparatus for improving re-activation of a NFC-F based remote NFC device Dubai Chingalande 2020-05-05 $11,877,000
10361754 Enabling use of stay quiet requests in a near field communication device 2019-07-23 $22,317,000
10186749 Systems and methods for a remote near field communication antenna unit Jeremy R. O'Donoghue 2019-01-22 $7,881,000
9980117 Methods and apparatus for improving peer communications using an active communication mode Anssi Haverinen 2018-05-22 $9,624,000
9887743 Methods and apparatus for discovering tag talks first devices 2018-02-06 $25,183,000
9800693 Systems and methods for an inductive communication interface Dubai Chingalande, Alan Gillespie 2017-10-24 $7,716,000
9735834 Methods and apparatus for improving NFC activation and data exchange reporting mechanisms Jeremy R. O'Donoghue 2017-08-15 $6,524,000
9647884 Near field communication forum listen mode profiles 2017-05-09 $6,508,000
9559405 Devices and methods related to a display assembly including an antenna David J. Sorrell, Stephen Frankland 2017-01-31 $8,983,000
9374134 Methods and apparatus for improving the identification of multiple NFC-A devices Dubai Chingalande, Jeremy R. O'Donoghue 2016-06-21 $10,788,000
9370040 Methods and apparatus for improving NFC LLCP partitioning Alan Gillespie, Jeremy R. O'Donoghue, Dubai Chingalande 2016-06-14 $7,654,000
9351144 Methods and apparatus for improving NFC RF discovery based on detection of other RF activity Joel Benjamin Linsky 2016-05-24 $8,262,000
9331744 Methods and apparatus for improving collision resolution among multiple NFC-A devices Dubai Chingalande 2016-05-03 $8,023,000
9326222 Methods and apparatus for improving a NFCEE discovery process 2016-04-26 $8,850,000
9240824 Wireless power and wireless communication for electronic devices Miles A. Kirby, Ernest T. Ozaki, Stuart A. Heilsberg, Michael J. Mangan, Stephen Frankland 2016-01-19 $14,721,000
9214988 Methods and apparatus for improving peer communications using an active communication mode Anssi Haverinen 2015-12-15 $12,129,000
9124304 Methods and apparatus for reducing overhead for NFC data exchange protocol messages 2015-09-01 $5,790,000
9112541 Methods and apparatus for improving NFC data exchange configuration parameter update mechanisms Dubai Chingalande 2015-08-18 $6,950,000
9113284 Methods and apparatus for improving management of NFC logical connections Alan Gillespie 2015-08-18 $6,950,000
9113373 Methods and apparatus for improving peer communications using an active communication mode 2015-08-18 $6,950,000