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Robert F. Foster — 45 Patents

TBTarget Brands: 17 patents #56 of 1,696Top 4%
LLLateral Research Limited Liability: 14 patents #2 of 92Top 3%
TLTokyo Electron Limited: 10 patents #748 of 5,567Top 15%
Sony: 8 patents #5,371 of 25,231Top 25%
SCSprint Communications: 1 patents #1,148 of 2,085Top 60%
VAVarian: 1 patents #283 of 684Top 45%
Applied Materials: 1 patents #4,824 of 7,310Top 70%
San Francisco, CA: #571 of 26,999 inventorsTop 3%
California: #9,570 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #64,393 of 4,157,543Top 2%
45 Patents All Time
Robert F. Foster has been granted 45 US patents while listed as an inventor at Target Brands. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in August 2021. Robert F. Foster ranks #64,393 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Robert F. Foster in San Francisco, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 45 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11087270 Indexing video for retail investigations 2021-08-10 $247,666,000
9187022 Camera installation for trailer 2015-11-17 $184,237,000
9185359 Enterprise-wide camera data Christopher McGee 2015-11-10 $211,847,000
9171448 RFID tags for locating products 2015-10-27 $111,826,000
9153109 Mobile device cover with theft protection Lew Price, Stacy Abel 2015-10-06 $95,372,000
9031872 Digital sign with incorrectly stocked item identification 2015-05-12 $90,646,000
8885046 Semi-trailer with external switch 2014-11-11 $95,741,000
8866612 Suppressing alerts for RFID systems 2014-10-21 $160,469,000
8817094 Video storage optimization Robert K. Brown, Jason D. Reasoner, Neal DePape 2014-08-26 $50,062,000
8587662 Theft trend analysis and response Derek Moll 2013-11-19 $68,719,000
8576283 Hash-based chain of custody preservation Edward E. Burns 2013-11-05 $26,131,000
8457354 Movement timestamping and analytics Clare E. Kolar 2013-06-04 $182,583,000
8330817 Camera installation for trailer 2012-12-11 $71,841,000
8196997 Sting trailer 2012-06-12 $172,920,000
8170909 System and method for monitoring retail store performance Robert K. Brown, Gregory Allen McDonald, Caroline Louise Slettedahl, Richard S. Post 2012-05-01 $174,315,000
8145531 Product specific queries to determine presence of bottom-of-basket items Jennifer Ptak, Daniel J. Geiger 2012-03-27 $95,222,000
8010397 Enterprise infrastructure development systems and methods Chon Chitanavong 2011-08-30 $9,851,000
7946644 Sting trailer 2011-05-24 $73,206,000
7001491 Vacuum-processing chamber-shield and multi-chamber pumping method Michael J. Lombardi, Glyn Reynolds, Robert Rowan, Frederick T. Turner 2006-02-21
6730605 Redistribution of copper deposited films Chantal Arena-Foster, Joseph T. Hillman, Thomas J. Licata, Tugrul Yasar 2004-05-04
6368987 Apparatus and method for preventing the premature mixture of reactant gases in CVD and PECVD reactions Stanislaw Kopacz, Douglas A. Webb, Gerrit J. Leusink, Rene E. LeBlanc, Michael S. Ameen +2 more 2002-04-09
6221770 Low temperature plasma-enhanced formation of integrated circuits Joseph T. Hillman 2001-04-24
6220202 Apparatus for producing thin films by low temperature plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition Joseph T. Hillman, Rene E. LeBlanc 2001-04-24
6161500 Apparatus and method for preventing the premature mixture of reactant gases in CVD and PECVD reactions Stanislaw Kopacz, Douglas A. Webb, Gerrit J. Leusink, Rene E. LeBlanc, Michael S. Ameen +2 more 2000-12-19
6140215 Method and apparatus for low temperature deposition of CVD and PECVD films Joseph T. Hillman, Rikhit Arora 2000-10-31