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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Richard Marks — 134 Patents

Sony: 114 patents #86 of 25,231Top 1%
AMAmp: 7 patents #169 of 1,383Top 15%
WEWells Electronics: 5 patents #1 of 12Top 9%
Google: 4 patents #6,467 of 22,993Top 30%
AUAutodesk: 3 patents #220 of 1,046Top 25%
Foster City, CA: #5 of 2,058 inventorsTop 1%
California: #1,268 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #7,896 of 4,157,543Top 1%
134 Patents All Time
Richard Marks has been granted 134 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in October 2025. Richard Marks ranks #7,896 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.19%). Patent records list Richard Marks in Foster City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 2019.peak 131980: 3 patents19801984: 1 patents1987: 2 patents1990: 1 patents19901992: 1 patents1993: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19941995: 2 patents1998: 1 patents2000: 2 patents20002004: 1 patents2006: 3 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 3 patents2009: 3 patents2010: 11 patents20102011: 11 patents2012: 12 patents2013: 7 patents20132014: 12 patents2015: 7 patents2016: 4 patents20162017: 5 patents2018: 8 patents2019: 13 patents20192020: 2 patents2021: 8 patents2022: 2 patents20222023: 3 patents2024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 134 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12453638 Metatarsal arthroplasty devices, systems, and methods Arley Perez, III 2025-10-28
12111975 System and method for enhancing functionality of electronic devices Ding Xu 2024-10-08 $117,740,000
11899835 Control of personal space content presented via head mounted display Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Frederick Umminger 2024-02-13 $515,000
11731044 Voice command controller for communicating with a gaming system Hrishikesh R. Deshpande, Gary M. Zalewski 2023-08-22 $537,000
11662813 Spectating virtual (VR) environments associated with VR user interactivity Steven Osman 2023-05-30 $826,000
11662832 System and method for enhancing functionality of electronic devices Ding Xu 2023-05-30 $97,352,000
11442532 Control of personal space content presented via head mounted display Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Frederick Umminger 2022-09-13 $512,000
11423595 Artistic representation of digital data Tyler Gough, Philip Dam Roadley-Battin, Seth Benson, Curtis Flanagan 2022-08-23 $66,459,000
11181990 Spectator view tracking of virtual reality (VR) user in VR environments Steven Osman 2021-11-23 $1,434,000
11163358 Spectating virtual (VR) environments associated with VR user interactivity Steven Osman 2021-11-02 $3,737,000
11065532 Split-screen presentation based on user location and controller location Anton Mikhailov, Eric Larsen 2021-07-20 $969,000
11055918 Virtual character inter-reality crossover Jorge Arroyo Palacios, Steven Osman 2021-07-06 $2,102,000
11010971 User-driven three-dimensional interactive gaming environment 2021-05-18 $1,570,000
10960307 Voice command controller for communicating with a gaming system Hrishikesh R. Deshpande, Gary M. Zalewski 2021-03-30 $1,224,000
RE48417 Object direction using video input combined with tilt angle information Gary M. Zalewski 2021-02-02
10891766 Artistic representation of digital data Tyler Gough, Philip Dam Roadley-Battin, Seth Benson, Curtis Flanagan 2021-01-12 $52,130,000
10857455 Spectator management at view locations in virtual reality environments Steven Osman 2020-12-08 $1,236,000
10775878 Control of personal space content presented via head mounted display Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Frederick Umminger 2020-09-15 $907,000
10503269 Pinch and hold gesture navigation on a head-mounted display Jeffrey Roger Stafford 2019-12-10 $716,000
10475332 Spatial remote control Joshua M. Eads 2019-11-12 $752,000
10463962 Spectator view perspectives in VR environments Steven Osman 2019-11-05 $703,000
10445884 Control device for communicating visual information Anton Mikhailov, Ennin Huang, Gary M. Zalewski 2019-10-15 $760,000
10406433 Method and system for applying gearing effects to visual tracking Gary M. Zalewski, Crusoe Xiaodong Mao 2019-09-10
10410359 Methods for capturing images of markers of a person to control interfacing with an application 2019-09-10 $910,000
10376785 Audio, video, simulation, and user interface paradigms Gustavo Hernandez-Abrego, Xavier Menendez-Pidal, Steven Osman, Ruxin Chen, Rishi Deshpande +3 more 2019-08-13 $754,000