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Paul McCarthy — 12 Patents

UPUpguard: 4 patents #3 of 16Top 20%
Palo Alto, CA: #1,971 of 9,675 inventorsTop 25%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Paul McCarthy has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Upguard. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in December 2025. Paul McCarthy ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Paul McCarthy in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2024.peak 31986: 1 patents19862002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents20032018: 1 patents20182020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents20232024: 3 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12486795 Internal combustion engine Jonathan Gardner, Kevin Browne, Ryan Ballard 2025-12-02
12480436 Internal combustion engine Kevin Browne 2025-11-25
12182232 Verifying, monitoring, and tokenizing digital assets as proof of ownership and valuation of the digital assets 2024-12-31
12092056 Internal combustion engine Kevin Browne 2024-09-17
12088468 Differential node configuration for network maintenance Michael Franz Baukes, Greg Pollock, Alan James Sharp-Paul, Mark Sheahan, Taylor Stackpole +1 more 2024-09-10
11713735 Internal combustion engine Kevin Browne 2023-08-01
11368367 Differential node configuration for network maintenance Michael Franz Baukes, Greg Pollock, Alan James Sharp-Paul, Mark Sheahan, Taylor Stackpole +1 more 2022-06-21
10742507 Differential node configuration for network maintenance Michael Franz Baukes, Greg Pollock, Alan James Sharp-Paul, Mark Sheahan, Taylor Stackpole +1 more 2020-08-11
10084653 Differential node configuration for network maintenance Michael Franz Baukes, Greg Pollock, Alan James Sharp-Paul, Mark Sheahan, Taylor Stackpole +1 more 2018-09-25
6614192 Electronic ballast circuit Sean Noone, Thomas Durkan, Michael Quinlan 2003-09-02
6414448 Electronic ballast for a gas discharge lamp Sean Noone, Thomas Durkan, Michael Quinlan 2002-07-02
4613747 Ticket reading device 1986-09-23