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Mark Collins — 10 Patents

Sony: 8 patents #5,371 of 25,231Top 25%
Superior, CO: #71 of 396 inventorsTop 20%
Colorado: #4,661 of 40,980 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Mark Collins has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in October 2016. Mark Collins ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Mark Collins in Superior, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1983 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1986.peak 31983: 1 patents19831985: 1 patents19851986: 3 patents19861987: 2 patents19871988: 1 patents19882012: 1 patents20122016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9461892 System and method for serving and managing independent access devices Marc Epstein, Peter Barclay, Brian Karney, Glenn Ricart 2016-10-04
8095624 Architecture for serving and managing independent access devices Marc Epstein, Peter Barclay, Brian Karney, Glenn Ricart 2012-01-10
4734880 Dynamic random access memory arrangements having WE, RAS, and CAS derived from a single system clock 1988-03-29 $205,000
4698678 Television signal processing apparatus 1987-10-06 $345,000
4698698 Digital television signal processing apparatus 1987-10-06 $345,000
4605966 Error concealment in digital television signals 1986-08-12 $190,000
4587556 Television standards converters 1986-05-06 $169,000
4577237 Error correction in digital television signals 1986-03-18 $225,000
4558377 Digital television apparatus John G. S. Ive 1985-12-10 $210,000
4381519 Error concealment in digital television signals James H. Wilkinson 1983-04-26 $1,528,000