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Eric A. Bier — 61 Patents

Xerox: 29 patents #437 of 8,622Top 6%
PIPalo Alto Research Center Incorporated: 26 patents #65 of 776Top 9%
CSConduent Business Services: 6 patents #48 of 426Top 15%
Palo Alto, CA: #256 of 9,675 inventorsTop 3%
California: #5,709 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #37,626 of 4,157,543Top 1%
61 Patents All Time
Eric A. Bier has been granted 61 US patents while listed as an inventor at Xerox. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in December 2025. Eric A. Bier ranks #37,626 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.91%). Patent records list Eric A. Bier in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2021.peak 91992: 1 patents19921994: 1 patents1995: 3 patents1996: 2 patents19961997: 1 patents1998: 7 patents1999: 1 patents19992000: 2 patents2003: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072009: 4 patents2010: 4 patents2011: 3 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents2017: 3 patents2020: 3 patents20202021: 9 patents2022: 3 patents2023: 4 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 61 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12499169 Computer-implemented system and method for providing website navigation recommendations Kristian Lyngbaek, Lester D. Nelson, Margaret H. Szymanski 2025-12-16
12203670 System and method for determining HVAC set points Kathryn F. Murphy, Saman Mostafavi, Warren Jackson 2025-01-21
12114386 Building environmental sensor method and system for collecting data from same Alejandro E. Brito, Shantanu Rane, Paloma Juanita Fautley 2024-10-08 $2,791,000
11651036 Integrated index blocks and searching in blockchain systems Shantanu Rane 2023-05-16 $1,742,000
11625228 System and method for facilitating efficient round-trip engineering using intermediate representations Marc E. Mosko 2023-04-11 $10,202,000
11595226 Method and system for collecting sensor data in buildings Alejandro E. Brito, Shantanu Rane, Paloma Juanita Fautley 2023-02-28 $11,799,000
11588809 System and method for securing a content creation device connected to a cloud service Alejandro E. Brito, Marc E. Mosko, Shantanu Rane 2023-02-21 $3,451,000
11520689 System and method for automatic program repair using fast-result test cases Alexandre Campos Perez 2022-12-06 $3,238,000
11265331 Bluetooth hub device mediating connections between mobile device and controlled device Alejandro E. Brito, Shantanu Rane 2022-03-01 $3,156,000
11249888 System and method for generating counterexample tests of incidental invariants Alexandre Campos Perez, Johan de Kleer, Ron Zvi Stern 2022-02-15 $2,211,000
11163674 System and method for identifying a faulty component in a spectrum ambiguity group Alexandre Campos Perez 2021-11-02 $3,276,000
11157860 System and method for motivating parking enforcement officer performance with the aid of a digital computer Mark J. Stefik, Mudita Singhal, Kevin Albanese, Farrukh Ali, Daniel G. Bobrow +5 more 2021-10-26
11151494 System and method for visualizing parking enforcement officer movement in real time with the aid of a digital computer Mudita Singhal, Mark J. Stefik, Sureyya Tarkan, Robert T. Krivacic 2021-10-19 $4,603,000
11144855 System and method for managing coverage of parking enforcement for a neighborhood with the aid of a digital computer Mark J. Stefik, Mudita Singhal, Kevin Albanese, Farrukh Ali, Daniel G. Bobrow +5 more 2021-10-12
11126942 System and method for facilitating parking enforcement officer performance in real time with the aid of a digital computer Mark J. Stefik, Mudita Singhal, Kevin Albanese, Farrukh Ali, Daniel G. Bobrow +7 more 2021-09-21
11120375 System and method for monitoring parking enforcement officer performance in real time with the aid of a digital computer Mark J. Stefik, Mudita Singhal, Kevin Albanese, Farrukh Ali, Daniel G. Bobrow +8 more 2021-09-14
11070231 Reducing storage of blockchain metadata via dictionary-style compression Alejandro E. Brito, Shantanu Rane 2021-07-20 $5,777,000
11062241 System and method for facilitating parking enforcement officer dispatching in real time with the aid of a digital computer Mark J. Stefik, Mudita Singhal, Kevin Albanese, Farrukh Ali, Daniel G. Bobrow +7 more 2021-07-13
10929473 Integrated index blocks and searching in blockchain systems Shantanu Rane 2021-02-23 $6,572,000
10827092 System that facilitates making mobile payments to multi-function printer using proximity network and payment server Alejandro E. Brito, Shantanu Rane 2020-11-03 $3,288,000
10817814 System and method for coordinating parking enforcement officer patrol in real time with the aid of a digital computer Mark J. Stefik, Mudita Singhal, Kevin Albanese, Farrukh Ali, Daniel G. Bobrow +6 more 2020-10-27
10685234 Automatic and semi-automatic metadata generation via inheritance in homogeneous and heterogeneous environments Robert R. Buckley 2020-06-16 $4,423,000
9753896 System and method for flexibly taking actions upon activation of defined triggers Teresa F. Lunt, Oliver Brdiczka 2017-09-05 $3,195,000
9747278 System and method for mapping text phrases to geographical locations Anna Wu 2017-08-29 $3,482,000
9721039 Generating a relationship visualization for nonhomogeneous entities Oliver Brdiczka 2017-08-01 $6,918,000