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Thomas J. Sullivan — 40 Patents

TRTruecar: 21 patents #4 of 41Top 10%
BNBlackhawk Network: 7 patents #7 of 68Top 15%
CDCentral Institute For The Deaf: 3 patents #3 of 11Top 30%
LALastar: 1 patents #4 of 13Top 35%
TPTuesday Morning Partners: 1 patents #3 of 5Top 60%
Santa Monica, CA: #89 of 3,628 inventorsTop 3%
California: #11,486 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Thomas J. Sullivan has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Truecar. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in September 2025. Thomas J. Sullivan ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Thomas J. Sullivan in Santa Monica, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12423725 System, method and computer program product for geo-specific vehicle pricing Michael D. Swinson, Param Pash Kaur Dhillon, Xingchu Liu 2025-09-23
12380428 Stored-value card management method and system J. Simmons Graves 2025-08-05
12265977 System, method and computer program product for predicting a next hop in a search path Michael D. Swinson 2025-04-01
12008593 System, method and computer program for varying affiliate position displayed by intermediary Michael D. Swinson, Jason McBride, Isaac Lemon Laughlin 2024-06-11 $3,437,000
11922439 System, method and computer program product for predicting a next hop in a search path Michael D. Swinson 2024-03-05 $4,431,000
11687961 System, method and computer program product for geo-specific vehicle pricing Michael D. Swinson, Param Pash Kaur Dhillon, Xingchu Liu 2023-06-27 $3,268,000
11633114 Cuff designs and methods Tobias J. Harrison-Noonan, Richard H. Koch, Habib S. Karaki, Richard C. Kimoto, R. Keith Montgomery 2023-04-25
11532001 System, method and computer program product for geo specific vehicle pricing Michael D. Swinson, Param Pash Kaur Dhillon, Xingchu Liu 2022-12-20 $1,666,000
11532003 System, method and computer program for varying affiliate position displayed by intermediary Michael D. Swinson, Jason McBride, Isaac Lemon Laughlin 2022-12-20 $1,666,000
11429954 Stored-value card management method and system J. Simmons Graves 2022-08-30
11361331 System, method and computer program product for predicting a next hop in a search path Michael D. Swinson 2022-06-14 $2,728,000
11132702 System, method and computer program for varying affiliate position displayed by intermediary Michael D. Swinson, Jason McBride, Isaac Lemon Laughlin 2021-09-28 $2,647,000
10872331 Stored-value card management method and system J. Simmons Graves 2020-12-22
10740776 System, method and computer program product for geo-specific vehicle pricing Michael D. Swinson, Param Pash Kaur Dhillon, Xingchu Liu 2020-08-11 $10,097,000
10482485 System, method and computer program for varying affiliate position displayed by intermediary Michael D. Swinson, Jason McBride, Isaac Lemon Laughlin 2019-11-19 $3,765,000
10467676 Method and system for selection, filtering or presentation of available sales outlets Jason McBride, Michael D. Swinson, Zixia Wang 2019-11-05 $5,482,000
10296929 System, method and computer program product for geo-specific vehicle pricing Michael D. Swinson, Param Pash Kaur Dhillon, Xingchu Liu 2019-05-21 $7,787,000
10217106 Stored-value card management method and system J. Simmons Graves 2019-02-26
10210534 System, method and computer program product for predicting item preference using revenue-weighted collaborative filter Michael D. Swinson 2019-02-19 $8,674,000
9691063 Stored-value card management method and system J. Simmons Graves 2017-06-27 $8,357,000
D787320 Box Terence A. Gill 2017-05-23
9508084 System, method and computer program product for predicting item preference using revenue-weighted collaborative filter Michael D. Swinson 2016-11-29 $13,534,000
9189800 Method and system for selection, filtering or presentation of available sales outlets Jason McBride, Michael D. Swinson, Zixia Wang 2015-11-17 $11,680,000
9116964 System, method and computer program product for decoding vehicle identification numbers Michael D. Swinson 2015-08-25 $7,258,000
8998081 Stored-value card management method and system J. Simmons Graves 2015-04-07