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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
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William L. Thomas

RGRovi Guides: 135 patents #4 of 684Top 1%
UPUnited Video Properties: 68 patents #2 of 191Top 2%
OPOds Properties: 7 patents #5 of 31Top 20%
AGAdeia Guides: 7 patents #33 of 333Top 10%
Microsoft: 4 patents #10,696 of 40,388Top 30%
ZRZenith Radio: 4 patents #20 of 184Top 15%
ANA.C. Nielsen: 4 patents #4 of 44Top 10%
RGRovl Guides: 2 patents #5 of 69Top 8%
NPNews America Publications: 2 patents #2 of 17Top 15%
RPRovi Product: 1 patents #13 of 56Top 25%
OTOds Technologies: 1 patents #11 of 16Top 70%
UFUS Air Force: 1 patents #6,190 of 16,312Top 40%
CDControl Data: 1 patents #56 of 192Top 30%
NRNielsen Media Research: 1 patents #13 of 31Top 45%
TCTelecommunications Of Colorado: 1 patents #4 of 16Top 25%
ITInternational Telephone And Telegraph: 1 patents #182 of 507Top 40%
Evergreen, CO: #1 of 385 inventorsTop 1%
Colorado: #10 of 40,980 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #2,108 of 4,157,543Top 1%
244 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 226–244 of 244 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
6141488 Program guide system for recording television programs Edward B. Knudson, Michael D. Ellis, Bruce L. Davis 2000-10-31
6016141 Interactive television program guide system with pay program package promotion Edward B. Knudson, Michael D. Ellis, Bruce L. Davis 2000-01-18
5822123 Electronic television program guide schedule system and method with pop-up hints Bruce L. Davis, Michael D. Ellis, Edward B. Knudson 1998-10-13
5771307 Audience measurement system and method Daozheng Lu, Ceril T. Shagrin, Morris Lee, Bruce E. Bernard, Jia Zhang 1998-06-23
5666645 Data management and distribution system and method for an electronic television program guide David W. Gustafson, Dennis Tenney, Paul Darata 1997-09-09
5635978 Electronic television program guide channel system and method Jerry Alten, Bruce L. Davis, Michael D. Morris, Roger Youman 1997-06-03
5550928 Audience measurement system and method Daozheng Lu, Ceril T. Shagrin, Morris Lee, Bruce E. Bernard, Jia Zhang 1996-08-27
5526427 Universal broadcast code and multi-level encoded signal monitoring system Paul C. Kempter, David H. Harkness 1996-06-11
5488919 Canted rudder system for pitch roll and steering control Larrie D. Ferreiro, Timothy Smith 1996-02-06
5481294 Audience measurement system utilizing ancillary codes and passive signatures Daozheng Lu 1996-01-02
5425100 Universal broadcast code and multi-level encoded signal monitoring system Paul C. Kempter, David H. Harkness 1995-06-13
4739398 Method, apparatus and system for recognizing broadcast segments Steven J. Sletten, John Mathews, Jeffrey C. Swinehart, Michael W. Fellinger, John Erik Hershey +2 more 1988-04-19
4600921 Full-field teletext system with dynamic addressability 1986-07-15
4542897 Exercise cycle with interactive amusement device Donald Melton 1985-09-24
4393404 Special services teletext communications system Charles Cox 1983-07-12
4393376 Teletext interface for digital storage medium having synthetic video generator 1983-07-12
4388645 Teletext communication system with timed multipage local memory Charles Cox 1983-06-14
4358896 Workpiece locator 1982-11-16
4354736 Stress-induced birefringent single mode optical fiber and a method of fabricating the same Mokhtar S. Maklad, Francis I. Akers 1982-10-19