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Thomas J. Zato — 39 Patents

ZEZenith Electronics: 21 patents #12 of 411Top 3%
ZRZenith Radio: 6 patents #7 of 184Top 4%
DLDolby Laboratories Licensing: 5 patents #262 of 815Top 35%
HP: 3 patents #5,824 of 16,619Top 40%
LG: 2 patents #13,393 of 26,165Top 55%
Santa Clara, CA: #327 of 9,301 inventorsTop 4%
California: #11,915 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #81,245 of 4,157,543Top 2%
39 Patents All Time
Thomas J. Zato has been granted 39 US patents while listed as an inventor at Zenith Electronics. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in October 2016. Thomas J. Zato ranks #81,245 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Thomas J. Zato in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 39 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9479766 Modifying images for a 3-dimensional display mode Gianluca Filippini, Bernd Weber, James F. Dougherty, Reinhard R. Steffens 2016-10-25 $1,714,000
9426441 Methods for carrying and transmitting 3D z-norm attributes in digital TV closed captioning James F. Dougherty, Gianluca Filippini 2016-08-23 $4,066,000
9277279 Web television having a two-way communication bus interconnecting a television controller and an internet module Kevin J. Gaughan 2016-03-01 $37,000
9241189 Web television having a two-way communication bus interconnecting a television controller and an internet module Kevin J. Gaughan 2016-01-19 $35,000
8830300 Multiscalar stereo video format conversion Gianluca Filippini, Reinhard R. Steffens, James F. Dougherty 2014-09-09 $4,610,000
8806562 Audio/video component networking system and method Raphael Gernez, Richard Shen 2014-08-12 $15,110,000
8743178 Multi-view video format control Gianluca Filippini, Reinhard R. Steffens, James F. Dougherty 2014-06-03 $1,744,000
8607294 Audio/video component networking system and method David C. Vinson, Richard Shen, Leonard Tsai 2013-12-10 $26,240,000
8521806 Initiating a file download by a first electrical device through a second electrical device Marc Chutczer, Binh T. Truong, Varshney Anuj, Kooi L. Yap 2013-08-27 $18,593,000
8401370 Application tracks in audio/video containers James F. Dougherty, Gianluca Filippini, Reinhard R. Steffens 2013-03-19 $3,076,000
7827583 Web television having a two-way communication bus interconnecting a television controller and an internet module Kevin J. Gaughan 2010-11-02
7823181 Web television having a two-way communication bus interconnecting a television controller and an internet module Kevin J. Gaughan 2010-10-26
7028330 Transferring information between an internet module and TV controller of a web TV Kevin J. Gaughan 2006-04-11
6785906 Polling internet module of web TV Kevin J. Gaughan 2004-08-31
6272680 Video display initiated by internet module of web TV Kevin J. Gaughan 2001-08-07
6097383 Video and audio functions in a web television Kevin J. Gaughan 2000-08-01
6073171 Two-way communication protocol for a web television Kevin J. Gaughan 2000-06-06
5977963 Transmission of displacement information in a web television Kevin J. Gaughan 1999-11-02
5844552 Communication of character data in a web television Kevin J. Gaughan 1998-12-01
5589893 On-screen remote control of a television receiver Kevin J. Gaughan 1996-12-31 $9,803,000
5436676 Remote control unit code translation Charles S. Pint 1995-07-25 $4,175,000
5301023 Data slicing system — 1994-04-05 $999,000
5249050 Closed captioned data line detection system — 1993-09-28 $496,000
5223930 Data recovery system using dot clock counting — 1993-06-29 $1,404,000
4677488 Video system with television receiver and teletext processor capable of switching external RGB signals — 1987-06-30 $1,149,000

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