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Steven Charles Rhoads — 14 Patents

TLThomson Licensing: 12 patents #191 of 2,575Top 8%
IHInterdigital Patent Holdings: 1 patents #464 of 824Top 60%
SCSchaeffler: 1 patents #1,192 of 2,365Top 55%
Carmel, IN: #164 of 1,387 inventorsTop 15%
Indiana: #2,453 of 33,936 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #344,076 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time

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Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11408495 Compact torque converter assembly for hybrid module Melissa Blischak, Patrick Lindemann, Ayyalraju Satyaseelan 2022-08-09
11057661 Method and apparatus for personal multimedia content distribution Douglas Paul Strachota 2021-07-06
9874911 Apparatus and method for resetting to factory default with bootloader program Marc David Ziems 2018-01-23
9774822 Method and apparatus for QAM modulator channel distribution having a plurality of modes Douglas Paul Strachota 2017-09-26
9374625 User interfaces for content distribution systems Douglas Paul Strachota, Anthony Louis Watters 2016-06-21
9374624 Method and apparatus for auto-tuning program guides Darrel Wayne Randall 2016-06-21
9319418 Method and apparatus for software downloads in a network Keith R. Broerman, Aaron Michael Smith, Gary Robert Gutknecht 2016-04-19
8819731 System and method for synchronizing an electronic program guide with paused programs Suresh Vishwanath Leley, Thomas Anthony Stahl, Darrel Wayne Randall 2014-08-26
8799961 Remote control based interactive program guide Robert Andrew Rhodes, Benjamin Thomas VONDERSAAR, Thomas Anthony Stahl, Darrel Wayne Randall, Douglas Paul Strachota +1 more 2014-08-05
7493640 Advertisement and tracking in a television apparatus Mike Arthur Derrenberger, John Frederick Teskey, Thomas H. Hamilton, Michael Eugene Willcox, Hugh Boyd Morrison +2 more 2009-02-17
7054361 Method and apparatus for enhancing an infrared signal protocol Kurt William Otte, Barry Jay Weber 2006-05-30
6993782 Program guide information and processor for providing program and channel substitution Thomas Patrick Newberry, Liangzhone Wang, Glen Wakeman Ruch 2006-01-31
6665020 Digital television apparatus for controlling a peripheral device via a digital bus Thomas Anthony Stahl, Mike Arthur Derrenberger, Izzat H. Izzat, Saban Kurugay, Amit Kumar Chatterjee +1 more 2003-12-16
6182287 Preferred service management system for a multimedia video decoder Daniel R. Schneidewend, Aaron Hal Dinwiddie 2001-01-30