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Mark L. Schaffer — 19 Patents

Sony: 8 patents #5,371 of 25,231Top 25%
Google: 6 patents #4,427 of 22,993Top 20%
Motorola Mobility: 2 patents #872 of 2,103Top 45%
AEArris Enterprises: 2 patents #492 of 1,262Top 40%
Rockaway, NJ: #13 of 252 inventorsTop 6%
New Jersey: #4,314 of 69,400 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Mark L. Schaffer has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in November 2024. Mark L. Schaffer ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Mark L. Schaffer in Rockaway, NJ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2014.peak 31997: 1 patents19971999: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents2014: 3 patents20142016: 3 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212023: 3 patents2024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12137202 Method and apparatus for distribution of 3D television program materials Siu-Wai Wu 2024-11-05 $164,877,000
12022166 System to monitor and manage integrated receiver decoders Erik Elstermann, John Shumate, Robert Seymour, Todd T. Kassman, Michael A. Casteloes 2024-06-25
D997087 Satellite Kevin Feld, Bill Doncaster, John Olds, John Madigan, Megan Braun +2 more 2023-08-29
11606627 System to monitor and manage integrated receiver decoders Erik Elstermann, John Shumate, Robert Seymour, Todd T. Kassman, Michael A. Casteloes 2023-03-14
11558596 Method and apparatus for distribution of 3D television program materials Siu-Wai Wu 2023-01-17 $46,717,000
10893253 Method and apparatus for distribution of 3D television program materials Siu-Wai Wu 2021-01-12 $52,130,000
10602378 Satellites and satellite-based systems for ground-to-space short-burst data communications John Olds, Kevin Feld, Alexander Cheu 2020-03-24
10368251 Satellites and satellite-based systems for ground-to-space short-burst data communications John Olds, Kevin Feld, Alexander Cheu 2019-07-30
10368050 Method and apparatus for distribution of 3D television program materials Siu-Wai Wu 2019-07-30 $48,742,000
9477320 Input device — 2016-10-25
9258578 System and method for selectively transcoding signal from one format to one of plurality of formats — 2016-02-09 $24,996,000
9237366 Method and apparatus for distribution of 3D television program materials Siu-Wai Wu 2016-01-12 $24,447,000
8836857 System and method for selectively transcoding signal from one format to one of plurality of formats — 2014-09-16 $3,490,000
8641306 Wristwatch keyboard — 2014-02-04
8631454 Method and apparatus for constrained distribution of television program material Todd T. Kassman, James M. Stowe, Kevin S. Wirick 2014-01-14 $7,773,000
6236682 Video motion vector detection including rotation and/or zoom vector generation Takaaki Ota 2001-05-22 $1,823,000
6163345 Method and apparatus for providing station and programming information in a multiple station broadcast system Fujio Noguchi, Gail K. White, Richard Gioscia, Peter Jordan, Setsuko Watanabe Blaszkowski +4 more 2000-12-19 $3,030,000
5926613 Method and apparatus for encoding pan-edit vectors for film to tape transfer — 1999-07-20 $644,000
5596373 Method and apparatus for providing program oriented information in a multiple station broadcast system Gail K. White, Fujio Noguchi, Kazuhiko Akaike 1997-01-21 $232,000

Frequent Collaborators

Siu-Wai Wu5 shared
Kevin Feld3 shared
John Olds3 shared
Todd T. Kassman3 shared
John Shumate2 shared
Michael A. Casteloes2 shared

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