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Inventor

Robert F. Tow

Inventor
Los Gatos, CA, US

Overview

15→
Patents
1991–2020
Patent span
Physics
Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 15 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Fprimary
G06FElectric digital data processing17%
G06KGraphical data reading17%
G06QInformation and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes10%
A63FCard, board, or roulette games7%
G06NComputing arrangements based on specific computational models7%
G06VImage or video recognition or understanding7%
H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television7%
A61HPhysical therapy apparatus, e.g. devices for locating or stimulating reflex points in the body3%
G01CMeasuring distances, levels or bearings3%
G01JMeasurement of intensity, velocity, spectral content, polarisation, phase or pulse characteristics of infrared, visible or ultraviolet light3%
PatentTitleYear
10,860,696Method and apparatus for secure information distribution20209,993,384Vision-assist systems and methods for assisting visually impaired users with navigating an environment using simultaneous audio outputs20189,015,075'Method and apparatus for secure information distribution'20158,659,546'Method and apparatus for transferring digital content'20147,761,906'Method and apparatus for spatially stationary software on mobile hardware'20107,538,670'Method for detecting objects separated from a group'20097,321,307'Chemical time modification of an object'20087,266,771'Video stream representation and navigation using inherent data'2007RE038758'Self-clocking glyph shape codes'20056,076,738'Self-clocking glyph shape codes'20006,038,493'Affect-based robot communication methods and systems'20005,832,189'Affect-based robot communication methods and systems'19985,315,098'Methods and means for embedding machine readable digital data in halftone images'19945,091,966'Adaptive scaling for decoding spatially periodic self-clocking glyph shape codes'19925,037,201'Spectral resolving and sensing apparatus'1991

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1991–2005Patents assigned to XEROX CORP (5)· patent assignee history
1991–2005Based in Palo Alto, CA, US· patent location history
1998–2000Patents assigned to INTERVAL RESEARCH CORP (2)· patent assignee history
1998–2020Based in Los Gatos, CA, US· patent location history
2008–2009Patents assigned to SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC (2)· patent assignee history
2014–2020Patents assigned to ORACLE AMERICA INC (3)· patent assignee history
2014–2015Patents assigned to TOW ROBERT F (2)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees
AssigneePatentsSpan
XEROX CORP51991–2005
ORACLE AMERICA INC32014–2020
INTERVAL RESEARCH CORP21998–2000
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC22008–2009
TOW ROBERT Fself22014–2015
Locations
LocationPatentsSpan
Los Gatos, California, US101998–2020
Palo Alto, California, US51991–2005