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William G. Ames — 19 Patents

Qualcomm: 19 patents #1,180 of 12,104Top 10%
GLGlobalstar: 2 patents #9 of 23Top 40%
Poway, CA: #90 of 1,186 inventorsTop 8%
California: #31,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
William G. Ames has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in June 2021. William G. Ames ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list William G. Ames in Poway, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11041959 Ephemeris information management for satellite communication Kundan Kumar Lucky, Gene Wesley Marsh, Srikant Jayaraman, Dan Vassilovski, Fatih Ulupinar +1 more 2021-06-22 $28,905,000
9991948 Low cost cableless ground station antenna for medium earth orbit satellite communication systems Ernest T. Ozaki, Ahmad Jalali 2018-06-05 $12,691,000
9882630 Overlaying an air to ground communication system on spectrum assigned to satellite systems Ahmad Jalali, Leonard N. Schiff 2018-01-30 $9,727,000
9848391 High data rate aircraft to ground communication antenna system Ahmad Jalali, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Ernest T. Ozaki, Leonard N. Schiff 2017-12-19 $22,275,000
9766345 Low cost cableless ground station antenna for medium earth orbit satellite communication systems Ernest T. Ozaki, Ahmad Jalali 2017-09-19 $13,033,000
9425889 Method and apparatus for improved non-geostationary communications Ahmad Jalali 2016-08-23 $9,927,000
9319172 Interference mitigation techniques for air to ground systems Ahmad Jalali, Bin Tian, Leonard N. Schiff 2016-04-19 $8,352,000
9295006 Real-time calibration of an air to ground communication system Ahmad Jalali, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Ernest T. Ozaki, Leonard N. Schiff 2016-03-22 $7,748,000
8848548 Internet radio broadcast using cellular Ahmad Jalali, Leonard N. Schiff 2014-09-30 $5,793,000
8676192 High data rate aircraft to ground communication antenna system Ahmad Jalali, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Ernest T. Ozaki, Leonard N. Schiff 2014-03-18 $8,578,000
8284826 Synchronization of satellite and terrestrial broadcast ODFM signals Leonard N. Schiff 2012-10-09 $12,393,000
7525934 Mixed reuse of feeder link and user link bandwidth Leonard N. Schiff 2009-04-28 $101,848,000
6714780 System and method for reducing call dropping rates in a multi-beam communication system Franklin P. Antonio, Gene Wesley Marsh, Richard Alan Stewart, Marie M. Bjerede, Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam +6 more 2004-03-30 $64,395,000
6339611 Method and apparatus for cross polarized isolation in a communication system Franklin P. Antonio, Leonard N. Schiff 2002-01-15 $561,330,000
6208858 System and method for reducing call dropping rates in a multi-beam communication system Franklin P. Antonio, Gene Wesley Marsh, Richard Alan Stewart, Marie M. Bjerede, Ananthanarayanan Chockalingam +6 more 2001-03-27 $82,493,000
5812538 Multiple satellite repeater capacity loading with multiple spread spectrum gateway antennas Robert A. Wiedeman, Paul A. Monte, Stephen Steele Carter 1998-09-22 $5,386,000
5592481 Multiple satellite repeater capacity loading with multiple spread spectrum gateway antennas Robert A. Wiedeman, Paul A. Monte, Stephen Steele Carter 1997-01-07 $17,511,000
5126748 Dual satellite navigation system and method Irwin M. Jacobs, Lindsay A. Weaver, Jr., Klein S. Gilhousen 1992-06-30 $6,053,000
5017926 Dual satellite navigation system Irwin M. Jacobs, Lindsay A. Weaver, Jr., Klein S. Gilhousen 1991-05-21