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Walter Petersen — 7 Patents

VAValve: 6 patents #36 of 125Top 30%
Seattle, WA: #4,313 of 21,776 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #14,787 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Walter Petersen has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Valve. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in March 2025. Walter Petersen ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Walter Petersen in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1982 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2022.peak 21982: 1 patents19822021: 1 patents20212022: 2 patents20222024: 2 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12239903 Controller with sensor-rich controls Eric J. VanWyk, Lucas Allen Whipple, Jeffrey Walter Mucha, Scott Dalton, Pierre-Loup Miguel Griffais 2025-03-04
12064684 Dynamically enabling or disabling controls of a controller Eric J. VanWyk, John Ikeda, Benoit Collette, Richard Karstens 2024-08-20
D1036548 Electronic device Benoit Collette, John Ikeda, Jeremy Slocum, Pierre-Loup Miguel Griffais, Lucas Allen Whipple +1 more 2024-07-23
11511186 Controller with sensor-rich controls Eric J. VanWyk, Lucas Allen Whipple, Jeffrey Walter Mucha, Scott Dalton, Pierre-Loup Miguel Griffais 2022-11-29
11504610 Dynamically enabling or disabling controls of a controller Eric J. VanWyk, John Ikeda, Benoit Collette, Richard Karstens 2022-11-22
10898797 Electronic controller with finger sensing and an adjustable hand retainer Philip Bryan, Carl Samuel Conlee, IV, Jeffrey Walter Mucha, Scott Douglas Nietfeld, Eric J. VanWyk +4 more 2021-01-26
D263895 Glass thimble 1982-04-20