William Clay has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony . The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in September 2025. William Clay ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list William Clay in San Diego, CA, US.
Patents per Year Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2025 Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2019. peak 4 2012: 1 patents 2012 2013: 1 patents 2013 2015: 1 patents 2015 2017: 1 patents 2017 2018: 2 patents 2018 2019: 4 patents 2019 2020: 1 patents 2020 2021: 1 patents 2021 2022: 1 patents 2022 2025: 1 patents 2025
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Showing 1–14 of 14 patents
Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx Value ⓘ
12418757 Hearing aid proximity detection and action to optimize a call James R. Milne 2025-09-16
11277706 Angular sensing for optimizing speaker listening experience James R. Milne , Gregory Carlsson 2022-03-15
$950,000
10979687 Using super imposition to render a 3D depth map Peter Shintani , Jose Omar Gonzalez Hernandez , Pablo Espinosa , Fred Ansfield , Bibhudendu Mohapatra +2 more 2021-04-13
$1,554,000
10536684 Color noise reduction in 3D depth map Peter Shintani , Jose Omar Gonzalez Hernandez , Pablo Espinosa , Fred Ansfield , 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 , Pablo Espinosa , Fred Ansfield , Bibhudendu Mohapatra +2 more 2019-12-03
$876,000
10451714 Optical micromesh for computerized devices Peter Shintani , Jose Omar Gonzalez Hernandez , Pablo Espinosa , Fred Ansfield , 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 , Pablo Espinosa , Fred Ansfield , 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 , Pablo Espinosa , Fred Ansfield , Bibhudendu Mohapatra +2 more 2019-01-08
$607,000
10070092 Directional remote control based on ranging — 2018-09-04
$973,000
9881536 Multi-display device and method therefore Mahyar Nejat 2018-01-30
9833703 Thermoelectric device in game controller — 2017-12-05
$474,000
9083926 Multi-display device and method therefore Mahyar Nejat 2015-07-14
$731,000
8456574 Recovery of service mode data corruption — 2013-06-04
$111,000
8274610 RFID-based wireless remote control using variable ID field — 2012-09-25
$149,000
