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Patrick Worfolk — 38 Patents

SISynaptics Incorporated: 25 patents #24 of 606Top 4%
HP: 4 patents #4,645 of 16,619Top 30%
WCWill Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co.: 2 patents #9 of 19Top 50%
Intel: 1 patents #18,326 of 30,777Top 60%
TTTzero Technologies: 1 patents #3 of 13Top 25%
RPRadiant Networks Pc: 1 patents #7 of 14Top 50%
NHNdssi Holdings: 1 patents #3 of 10Top 30%
San Jose, CA: #1,502 of 32,062 inventorsTop 5%
California: #12,412 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #84,675 of 4,157,543Top 3%
38 Patents All Time
Patrick Worfolk has been granted 38 US patents while listed as an inventor at Synaptics Incorporated. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in May 2025. Patrick Worfolk ranks #84,675 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Patrick Worfolk in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2024.peak 52002: 1 patents20022005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents2010: 2 patents20102011: 1 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 3 patents20152016: 3 patents2017: 4 patents20172019: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 3 patents2022: 1 patents20222024: 5 patents2025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 38 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12299203 Input device having integrated haptics and near field communication antenna 2025-05-13
12293563 Automated data annotation for computer vision applications Karthikeyan Shanmuga Vadivel, Omar Oreifej 2025-05-06
12272021 Data pre-processing for low-light images Karthikeyan Shanmuga Vadivel, Omar Oreifej 2025-04-08
12260022 Input device having haptics sensing and corrective device sensing Stuart W. Hutson 2025-03-25
12026396 Word based channels last ordering in memory 2024-07-02 $7,102,000
11972054 Input device having integrated haptics and near field communication antenna 2024-04-30 $8,089,000
11972056 Input device having haptics sensing and corrective device sensing Stuart W. Hutson 2024-04-30 $8,089,000
11967042 Data pre-processing for low-light images Karthikeyan Shanmuga Vadivel, Omar Oreifej 2024-04-23 $16,113,000
11899753 Low-light image selection for neural network training Omar Oreifej, Karthikeyan Shanmuga Vadivel, Kirk Hargreaves 2024-02-13 $19,299,000
11372143 Optical fingerprint sensor Patrick Smith, Paul Wickboldt, Steven Molesa, Young Seen Lee, Richard A. Klenkler 2022-06-28
11175177 Systems and methods for detecting ambient light or proximity with an optical sensor Petr Shepelev, Erik Jonathon Thompson 2021-11-16 $25,467,000
11152001 Vision-based presence-aware voice-enabled device Boyan Ivanov Bonev, Pascale El Kallassi 2021-10-19 $20,031,000
10976432 Acoustic locationing for smart environments Richard R. Schediwy, Kirk Hargreaves, Mihai Bulea 2021-04-13 $11,074,000
10705272 Optical fingerprint sensor Patrick Smith, Paul Wickboldt, Steven Molesa, Young Seen Lee, Richard A. Klenkler 2020-07-07
10168843 System and method for determining user input from occluded objects Joel Jordan 2019-01-01
9829614 Optical sensor using collimator Patrick Smith, Paul Wickboldt, Steve Molesa, Young Seen Lee, Richard A. Klenkler 2017-11-28 $3,151,000
9721365 Low latency modification of display frames 2017-08-01 $3,038,000
9690438 System and method for determining input object information from proximity and force measurements Vijay Venkatesh Mahalingam 2017-06-27 $9,509,000
9632638 Device and method for force and proximity sensing employing an intermediate shield electrode layer 2017-04-25 $19,314,000
9430097 Non-orthogonal coding techniques for optical sensing 2016-08-30 $14,097,000
9411458 System and method for determining input object information from proximity and force measurements Vijay Venkatesh Mahalingam 2016-08-09 $13,487,000
9367191 System and method for determining user input using polygons Joel Jordan 2016-06-14 $9,880,000
9179495 Implementing “all wireless” network over WiFi equipment using “scheduled TDMA” Shimon Scherzer, Armin Haken, Subburajan Ponnuswamy, Ronen Vainish 2015-11-03 $3,823,000
9014203 Space-time-power scheduling for wireless networks Shimon Scherzer 2015-04-21 $9,336,000
9001070 System and method for determining user input from occluded objects Joel Jordan 2015-04-07 $19,459,000