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Fred Ansfield — 26 Patents

Sony: 31 patents #1,118 of 25,231Top 5%
San Diego, CA: #1,550 of 23,606 inventorsTop 7%
California: #20,975 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Fred Ansfield has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in August 2025. Fred Ansfield ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Fred Ansfield in San Diego, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2017 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2023.peak 122017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents20182019: 4 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 2 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 12 patents20232024: 1 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12389060 Faster channel change time system for ATSC 3.0 Peter Shintani 2025-08-12
12187427 Retransmission of signals using aerial vehicles Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg 2025-01-07
12108109 Digital TV reception using OTT backchannel communication Adam Goldberg, Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Loren F. Pineda 2024-10-01 $842,000
11848716 Techniques for ATSC 3.0 broadcast boundary area management using signal quality and packet errors to differentiate between duplicated services on different frequencies during scan Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Loren F. Pineda 2023-12-19 $802,000
11838680 Techniques for ATSC 3.0 broadcast boundary area management using complete service reception during scan to determine signal quality of frequencies carrying the duplicate service Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Loren F. Pineda 2023-12-05 $731,000
11825131 Using ATSC 3.0 to augment in-stadium video feeds Brant Candelore 2023-11-21 $718,000
11825155 ATSC boundary condition fall over to internet Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Loren F. Pineda 2023-11-21 $718,000
11818414 Telepresence through OTA VR broadcast streams Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Graham Clift, Loren F. Pineda 2023-11-14 $786,000
11792473 Stream repair memory management Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Graham Clift, Loren F. Pineda 2023-10-17 $669,000
11711568 Techniques for ATSC 3.0 broadcast boundary area management using plural tuners handing off between presentation and scanning Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Loren F. Pineda 2023-07-25 $866,000
11611799 ATSC 3 application context switching and sharing Adam Goldberg, Brant Candelore, Graham Clift, Loren F. Pineda 2023-03-21 $1,165,000
11611792 ATSC 3 reception across boundary conditions using location data Adam Goldberg, Brant Candelore, Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Loren F. Pineda 2023-03-21 $1,165,000
11601707 Techniques for ATSC 3.0 broadcast boundary area management using plural tuners Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Loren F. Pineda 2023-03-07 $801,000
11553245 Techniques for receiving non-real time (NRT) data whilst traversing a multi-frequency network boundary Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Loren F. Pineda 2023-01-10 $602,000
11546650 Techniques for ATSC 3.0 broadcast boundary area management using plural tuners with different numbers of antennae Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Loren F. Pineda 2023-01-03 $662,000
11451853 Measuring ATSC 3 RF environment using autonomous vehicle Adam Goldberg, Graham Clift, Brant Candelore, Loren F. Pineda, Luke Fay 2022-09-20 $590,000
11451854 Dongle to convert formats to ATSC 3.0 low power wireless Brant Candelore 2022-09-20 $590,000
10979687 Using super imposition to render a 3D depth map Peter Shintani, Jose Omar Gonzalez Hernandez, William Clay, Pablo Espinosa, Bibhudendu Mohapatra +2 more 2021-04-13 $1,554,000
10952479 Protection for head mounted display device Bibhudendu Mohapatra, Keith Resch, Loren F. Pineda 2021-03-23 $2,208,000
10536684 Color noise reduction in 3D depth map Peter Shintani, Jose Omar Gonzalez Hernandez, William Clay, Pablo Espinosa, Bibhudendu Mohapatra +2 more 2020-01-14 $1,102,000
10495735 Using micro mirrors to improve the field of view of a 3D depth map Peter Shintani, Jose Omar Gonzalez Hernandez, William Clay, Pablo Espinosa, Bibhudendu Mohapatra +2 more 2019-12-03 $876,000
10451714 Optical micromesh for computerized devices Peter Shintani, Jose Omar Gonzalez Hernandez, William Clay, Pablo Espinosa, Bibhudendu Mohapatra +2 more 2019-10-22 $632,000
10181089 Using pattern recognition to reduce noise in a 3D map Peter Shintani, Jose Omar Gonzalez Hernandez, William Clay, Pablo Espinosa, Bibhudendu Mohapatra +2 more 2019-01-15 $970,000
10178370 Using multiple cameras to stitch a consolidated 3D depth map Peter Shintani, Jose Omar Gonzalez Hernandez, William Clay, Pablo Espinosa, Bibhudendu Mohapatra +2 more 2019-01-08 $607,000
10034027 Automatic MSO-based transfer of DVR content to new location of customer James R. Milne, Frederick J. Zustak 2018-07-24 $1,082,000