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Steven R. Klinkner — 57 Patents

TITile: 46 patents #5 of 52Top 10%
NENetapp: 9 patents #262 of 1,969Top 15%
Palo Alto, CA: #298 of 9,675 inventorsTop 4%
California: #6,412 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #42,642 of 4,157,543Top 2%
57 Patents All Time
Steven R. Klinkner has been granted 57 US patents while listed as an inventor at Tile. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in November 2025. Steven R. Klinkner ranks #42,642 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.0%). Patent records list Steven R. Klinkner in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2023.peak 102004: 1 patents20042008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents2011: 3 patents20112014: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162019: 2 patents2020: 7 patents20202021: 9 patents2022: 4 patents20222023: 10 patents2024: 10 patents20242025: 6 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 57 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12470931 End-to-end encryption with distributed key management in a tracking device environment Josselin de la Broise 2025-11-11
12438979 Tracking functionality standby mode for third party electronic devices Josselin de la Broise, Michael George Farley 2025-10-07
12413416 Data protection in a tracking device environment Rafael Marques Martins, Josselin de la Broise, Ian Thomas Meyer 2025-09-09
12356290 User presence-enabled tracking device functionality Josselin de la Broise 2025-07-08
12328579 End-to-end encryption with distributed key management in a tracking device environment Josselin de la Broise 2025-06-10
12294914 Tracking device location and coordination Omar Leyva, Christopher Brooks, Cihang Yang, Eric Chiquillo, Andre Gatti 2025-05-06
12126992 Unauthorized tracking device detection and prevention 2024-10-22
12107949 Key diversification in a tracking device environment Josselin de la Broise, Ian Thomas Meyer 2024-10-01
12089116 Tracking device presence detection and reporting by access points Josselin de la Broise 2024-09-10
12075312 Smart alerts in a tracking device environment Kevin Refermat 2024-08-27
12062271 Unauthorized location information access prevention in a tracking device environment Jossie Haines, Josselin de la Broise, Dan Danknick 2024-08-13
12052637 Tracking device location and coordination Omar Leyva, Christopher Brooks, Cihang Yang, Eric Chiquillo, Andre Gatti 2024-07-30
12028713 End-to-end encryption with distributed key management in a tracking device environment Josselin de la Broise 2024-07-02
11979502 Data protection in a tracking device environment Rafael Marques Martins, Josselin de la Broise, Ian Thomas Meyer 2024-05-07
11943680 Access point queries for tracking device smart alerts Josselin de la Broise 2024-03-26
11876892 Key diversification in a tracking device environment Josselin de la Broise, Ian Thomas Meyer 2024-01-16
11825382 Tracking device presence detection and reporting by access points Josselin de la Broise 2023-11-21
11800326 Issuing remote commands to tracking devices Jossie Haines, Josselin de la Broise, Dan Danknick 2023-10-24
11770711 End-to-end encryption with distributed key management in a tracking device environment Josselin de la Broise 2023-09-26
11765263 Tracking functionality standby mode for third party electronic devices Josselin de la Broise, Michael George Farley 2023-09-19
11689891 Tracking device location and coordination Omar Leyva, Christopher Brooks, Cihang Yang, Eric Chiquillo, Andre Gatti 2023-06-27
11641270 Key diversification in a tracking device environment Josselin de la Broise, Ian Thomas Meyer 2023-05-02
11576036 Unauthorized tracking device detection and prevention 2023-02-07
11570579 User presence-enabled tracking device functionality Josselin de la Broise 2023-01-31
11563822 Claiming ownership of tracking devices Charles Y. Choi 2023-01-24