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John F. Sheets — 88 Patents

Visa: 82 patents #5 of 2,009Top 1%
HP: 5 patents #3,830 of 16,619Top 25%
Mastercard: 3 patents #486 of 2,005Top 25%
San Francisco, CA: #170 of 26,999 inventorsTop 1%
California: #2,888 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #18,739 of 4,157,543Top 1%
88 Patents All Time
John F. Sheets has been granted 88 US patents while listed as an inventor at Visa. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in August 2025. John F. Sheets ranks #18,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.45%). Patent records list John F. Sheets in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 14 patents in 2022.peak 141999: 1 patents19992001: 1 patents2003: 2 patents20032007: 1 patents2011: 2 patents20112013: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 4 patents2018: 6 patents20182019: 10 patents2020: 7 patents20202021: 9 patents2022: 14 patents20222023: 10 patents2024: 7 patents20242025: 7 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 88 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12400223 Systems and methods for communicating risk using token assurance data Matthew Dill, Prasanna L. Narayan, Glenn Powell, Andrew Carpenter 2025-08-26
12361409 Methods and systems for provisioning mobile devices with payment credentials Erick Wong, Kiushan Pirzadeh, Oleg Makhotin, Glenn Powell, Igor Karpenko +1 more 2025-07-15
12339992 Data security hub Theodore Harris, Mark Nelsen, Yue Li, Craig O'Connell 2025-06-24
12333528 Multi-network tokenization processing Prasanna L. Narayan, Glenn Powell, Paul Tait, Andrew Carpenter 2025-06-17
12293365 Authentication based on biometric identification parameter of an individual for payment transaction Elianna Starr, Dennis Franklin Olson, Amy Dawson, Andres Jimenez, Jiayun He +10 more 2025-05-06
12205110 Network token system Glenn Powell, Bruce Rutherford, Gregory Williamson, James Anderson 2025-01-21
12198124 Secure remote payment transaction processing Kim R. Wagner, Christian Aabye, Frederick Liu, Igor Karpenko, Glenn Powell +1 more 2025-01-14
12112315 Multi-device authentication process and system utilizing cryptographic techniques Kim R. Wagner, Christian Aabye, Jing Jin 2024-10-08 $167,213,000
12095921 Authentication system using secure multi-party computation Kim R. Wagner 2024-09-17 $352,140,000
12088586 Biometric validation process utilizing access device and location determination Kim R. Wagner, Lacey Best-Rowden 2024-09-10 $185,128,000
11943363 Server-assisted privacy protecting biometric comparison Kim R. Wagner, Sunpreet Singh Arora, Lacey Best-Rowden, Chunxi Jiang 2024-03-26 $136,937,000
11915235 Systems and methods for communicating token attributes associated with a token vault Matthew Dill, Prasanna L. Narayan, Glenn Powell, Andrew Carpenter 2024-02-27 $155,122,000
11895491 Method and system for provisioning access data to mobile device Glenn Powell 2024-02-06 $238,535,000
11880829 Provisioning of access credentials using device codes Kim R. Wagner, Glenn Powell 2024-01-23 $252,564,000
11847652 Wireless biometric authentication system and method Kim R. Wagner, Mark Nelsen 2023-12-19 $94,374,000
11847199 Remote usage of locally stored biometric authentication data 2023-12-19 $94,374,000
11847643 Secure remote payment transaction processing using a secure element Igor Karpenko, Oleg Makhotin, Kiushan Pirzadeh, Glenn Powell, Erick Wong 2023-12-19 $94,374,000
11811761 Dynamic learning system for intelligent authentication Sunpreet Singh Arora, Kim R. Wagner, Lacey Best-Rowden 2023-11-07 $60,831,000
11777736 Use of biometrics and privacy preserving methods to authenticate account holders online Jason P. Blackhurst, Kim R. Wagner, Chunxi Jiang, Sunpreet Singh Arora 2023-10-03 $133,537,000
11763311 Multi-device transaction verification Kim R. Wagner, Mark Nelsen, Jing Jin 2023-09-19 $148,679,000
11710119 Network token system Glenn Powell, Bruce Rutherford, Gregory Williamson, James Anderson 2023-07-25 $144,857,000
11676138 Multi-network tokenization processing Prasanna L. Narayan, Glenn Powell, Paul Tait, Andrew Carpenter 2023-06-13 $241,867,000
11620647 Provisioning of access credentials using device codes Kim R. Wagner, Glenn Powell 2023-04-04 $164,747,000
11593809 Authentication based on biometric identification parameter of an individual for payment transaction Elianna Starr, Dennis Franklin Olson, Amy Dawson, Andres Jimenez, Jiayun He +10 more 2023-02-28 $213,529,000
11496467 Biometric validation process utilizing access device and location determination Kim R. Wagner, Lacey Best-Rowden 2022-11-08 $238,973,000