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Alan Yates — 12 Patents

VAValve: 10 patents #18 of 125Top 15%
Bellevue, WA: #993 of 6,950 inventorsTop 15%
Washington: #8,631 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Alan Yates has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Valve. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in March 2025. Alan Yates ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Alan Yates in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2021.peak 32006: 2 patents20062019: 2 patents20192021: 3 patents20212022: 2 patents20222024: 2 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12259547 Position tracking systems and methods for head-mounted display systems Evan Fletcher, Jeffrey Walter Mucha, Joshua Mark Hudman, Gordon Wayne Stoll, Jeffrey George Leinbaugh +1 more 2025-03-25
12013487 Positional tracking systems and methods Jeremy Adam Selan 2024-06-18
11933976 Position tracking systems and methods for head-mounted display systems Evan Fletcher, Jeffrey Walter Mucha, Joshua Mark Hudman, Gordon Wayne Stoll, Jeffrey George Leinbaugh +1 more 2024-03-19
11442542 Systems and methods for eye tracking Joshua Mark Hudman, Gordon Wayne Stoll, Evan Fletcher 2022-09-13
11378655 Positional tracking systems and methods Jeremy Adam Selan 2022-07-05
11209657 Position tracking system for head-mounted display systems that includes angle sensitive detectors Joshua Mark Hudman, Gordon Wayne Stoll, Evan Fletcher 2021-12-28
11073906 Eye tracking system for head-mounted display devices Joshua Mark Hudman, Gordon Wayne Stoll, Evan Fletcher 2021-07-27
11045725 Controller visualization in virtual and augmented reality environments David Sawyer, Tristan Reidford, Yasser Malaika, Jeremy Adam Selan 2021-06-29
10338186 Positional tracking systems and methods Jeremy Adam Selan 2019-07-02
10286308 Controller visualization in virtual and augmented reality environments David Sawyer, Tristan Reidford, Yasser Malaika, Jeremy Adam Selan 2019-05-14
7101209 Test socket Olga M. Stanescu, Sean K. Galligan 2006-09-05
6982551 Integrated circuit test device — 2006-01-03

Frequent Collaborators

Jeremy Adam Selan5 shared
Joshua Mark Hudman5 shared
Gordon Wayne Stoll5 shared
Evan Fletcher5 shared
Charles N. Lohr2 shared
David Sawyer2 shared

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