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Gerald E. Lester — 10 Patents

Sony: 6 patents #6,820 of 25,231Top 30%
Rockwell Collins: 3 patents #483 of 2,013Top 25%
TAThales Avionics: 3 patents #25 of 122Top 25%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
Brooks Road, CA: #133 of 1,361 inventorsTop 10%
California: #61,378 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Gerald E. Lester has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in May 2011. Gerald E. Lester ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Gerald E. Lester in Brooks Road, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1998.peak 21998: 2 patents19981999: 1 patents19992001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents20032006: 2 patents20062008: 1 patents20082011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7942459 Mounting device for a line replaceable unit in an aircraft and a method for using the same Terry Lo, Tomson Tseng, Ton Do, Randall Welch 2011-05-17
7405773 Display retract mechanism Bradley Foreman, Mauricio Mirand, Doris McQuaid 2008-07-29
7148935 On-board entertainment system entertainment display retractor position sensor Chung Ho, S. Scott Seeley 2006-12-12 $19,350,000
7042528 Display retract mechanism Bradley Foreman, Mauricio Mirand, Doris McQuaid 2006-05-09
6561600 In-flight entertainment LCD monitor housing multi-purpose latch S. Scott Seeley, Richard C. Mell, Stephen R. Boss, James R. Dan 2003-05-13 $34,882,000
6373536 Latch for an on-board entertainment system Richard C. Mell, S. Scott Seeley, Stephen R. Boss 2002-04-16 $8,239,000
D449049 LCD monitor bezel S. Scott Seeley, Richard C. Mell, Stephen R. Boss 2001-10-09
5910814 Interface for liquid crystal display retract device John R. Portman, Loi Quang Ninh, Garry Tillyer, John Newman 1999-06-08 $911,000
5704798 Apparatus for automatically terminating a signal John R. Portman, Loi Quang Ninh, Gary Tillyer, John Newman 1998-01-06 $472,000
5705860 Inflight entertainment system having EMI and ESD improvements Loi Quang Ninh 1998-01-06 $472,000