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Eric Yam — 15 Patents

Sony: 15 patents #2,874 of 25,231Top 15%
ANArista Networks: 4 patents #113 of 572Top 20%
San Diego, CA: #2,960 of 23,606 inventorsTop 15%
California: #40,789 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Eric Yam has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in April 2023. Eric Yam ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Eric Yam in San Diego, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2015.peak 31996: 1 patents19962008: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102012: 2 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2015: 3 patents20152016: 1 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11630499 Power over Ethernet (PoE) power management Robert Cyphers, Charles Melvin Aden, Eudean Michael Sun, Dipankar Bhatt Acharya 2023-04-18 $64,259,000
11385697 Power over ethernet (POE) power management Robert Cyphers, Charles Melvin Aden, Eudean Michael Sun, Dipankar Bhatt Acharya 2022-07-12 $78,758,000
11181960 Power over Ethernet (PoE) power management Robert Cyphers, Charles Melvin Aden, Eudean Michael Sun, Dipankar Bhatt Acharya 2021-11-23 $89,350,000
11093013 Power over ethernet (PoE) power management Robert Cyphers, Charles Melvin Aden, Eudean Michael Sun, Dipankar Bhatt Acharya 2021-08-17 $87,716,000
9232247 System and method for correlating audio and/or images presented to a user with facial characteristics and expressions of the user Sriram Sampathkumaran, Seungwook Hong, Helmut Neumann 2016-01-05 $424,000
9032510 Gesture- and expression-based authentication Sriram Sampathkumaran, Helmut Neumann, Seungwook Hong 2015-05-12 $663,000
9001216 Method and apparatus for video streaming Sriram Sampathkumaran, Helmut Neumann, Seungwook Hong, Tanmay Agnihotri 2015-04-07 $501,000
8929944 Wireless intelligent switch engine 2015-01-06 $278,000
8665304 Establishing 3D video conference presentation on 2D display Yang Yu, Seungwook Hong 2014-03-04 $295,000
8441515 Method and apparatus for minimizing acoustic echo in video conferencing 2013-05-14 $184,000
8315666 Wireless intelligent switch engine 2012-11-20 $102,000
8095178 Wireless intelligent switch engine 2012-01-10 $123,000
7702357 Wireless intelligent switch engine 2010-04-20 $281,000
7382749 Systems, methods, and apparatus with a common wireless communications protocol 2008-06-03 $1,671,000
5539804 Common channel signalling communication monitoring system Hausting Hong, D. P. Patel, Vaikunth N. Gupta 1996-07-23