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Eric Diehl — 92 Patents

Sony: 38 patents #769 of 25,231Top 4%
TLThomson Licensing: 33 patents #42 of 2,575Top 2%
Stryker: 16 patents #101 of 1,405Top 8%
FCFallbrook Intellectual Property Company: 8 patents #17 of 63Top 30%
TEThomson Consumer Electronics: 4 patents #92 of 436Top 25%
TMThomson Multimedia: 4 patents #8 of 160Top 5%
San Francisco, CA: #161 of 26,999 inventorsTop 1%
California: #2,657 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #17,129 of 4,157,543Top 1%
92 Patents All Time
Eric Diehl has been granted 92 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in September 2025. Eric Diehl ranks #17,129 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.41%). Patent records list Eric Diehl in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2012.peak 81992: 3 patents19921993: 2 patents1994: 1 patents1995: 2 patents19951996: 2 patents1997: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19981999: 3 patents2000: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 3 patents2007: 1 patents2008: 2 patents20082010: 5 patents2011: 2 patents2012: 8 patents20122013: 3 patents2014: 5 patents2015: 5 patents20152016: 4 patents2017: 3 patents2018: 6 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 5 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 5 patents2023: 5 patents2024: 7 patents20242025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 92 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12403021 System for processing bone stock including a bone cleaning head, a bone milling head and base that powers both the cleaning head and the milling head Dennis Stratton, John P. Bernero, Chris Chamberlin, Vincent Lam, Austin Orand +3 more 2025-09-02
12373532 Visual enrollment of cameras 2025-07-29
12363105 Code-based two factor authentication Chaitanya Krishna Rudrabhatla 2025-07-15
12242420 Fixity data processing 2025-03-04
12141245 Re-encryption-based digital rights management 2024-11-12 $636,000
12124542 User-protected license 2024-10-22 $714,000
12086221 Multi-factor authentication for virtual reality Scot Barbour 2024-09-10 $641,000
12076028 Surgical systems with twist-lock battery connection David Hershberger, Steven Brown, Heather Benoit 2024-09-03 $138,756,000
12069189 Media channel monitoring to prove content presentation Timothy J. Wright 2024-08-20 $655,000
11968305 Four-factor authentication 2024-04-23 $747,000
11950789 Bone cleaning assembly Robert E. Lynch, John Coleman Horton, IV, Cyril Keilers, John P. Bernero 2024-04-09 $152,892,000
11819426 Bone cleaner that removes soft tissue by pressing bone stock against a cleaning element and clearing the bone stock from the cleaning element John Coleman Horton, IV, John P. Bernero, Steven Brown, Shammodip Roy, Robin B. W. Babaris +2 more 2023-11-21 $96,609,000
11811914 Blockchain-based digital rights management 2023-11-07 $620,000
11756218 Secure distribution of multi-resolution point cloud 2023-09-12 $719,000
11722312 Privacy-preserving signature 2023-08-08 $594,000
11625470 Visual enrollment of cameras 2023-04-11 $1,033,000
11534181 Surgical systems with twist-lock battery connection David Hershberger, Steven Brown, Heather Benoit 2022-12-27 $114,383,000
11481786 Genuine instance of digital goods 2022-10-25 $483,000
11452621 System for processing bone stock including a bone cleaning head, a bone milling head and base that powers both the cleaning head and the milling head Dennis Stratton, John P. Bernero, Chris Chamberlin, Vincent Lam, Austin Orand +3 more 2022-09-27 $95,655,000
11398039 Point cloud scrambling 2022-07-26 $979,000
11258587 Blockchain-based digital rights management 2022-02-22 $868,000
10999422 Confirming geolocation of a device Don Eklund 2021-05-04 $1,336,000
10828048 Bone cleaning assembly Robert E. Lynch, John Coleman Horton, IV, Cyril Keilers, John P. Bernero 2020-11-10 $83,222,000
10821006 Bone cleaner that removes soft tissue by pressing bone stock against a cleaning element and clearing the bone stock from the cleaning element John Coleman Horton, IV, John P. Bernero, Steven Brown, Shammodip Roy, Robin B. W. Babaris +2 more 2020-11-03 $71,225,000
10703372 Systems and methods for control of transmission and/or prime mover Jeremy Carter, Brad P. Pohl, Loren T. McDaniel, Cyril Keilers, Tim Ruggles +6 more 2020-07-07