Atari Corporation
127Patents
0Active
127Granted
42Portfolio score
Filing activity: Sep 15, 1975 → May 10, 1995
Most-cited patents
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4969647A | Invertible hand-held electronic game apparatus | Human Necessities | 314 | Expired |
| USD320624S | Hand-held electronic game apparatus housing | General | 173 | Expired |
| US4469330A | Controller unit for video game | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 153 | Expired |
| US5607356A | Interactive game film | Human Necessities | 130 | Expired |
| US4071697A | Interactive video/telephone transmission system | Electricity | 112 | Expired |
| US4314236A | Apparatus for producing a plurality of audio sound effects | Physics | 98 | Expired |
| US4296476A | Data processing system with programmable graphics generator | Human Necessities | 89 | Expired |
| US4124787A | Joystick controller mechanism operating one or plural switches sequentially or simultaneously | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 85 | Expired |
| US4459578A | Finger control joystick utilizing Hall effect | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 83 | Expired |
| US4368515A | Bank switchable memory system | Physics | 83 | Expired |
| US4149027A | TV game cartridge and method | Electricity | 82 | Expired |
| US4319099A | Dome switch having contacts offering extended wear | Electricity | 81 | Expired |
| US4432067A | Memory cartridge for video game system | Physics | 78 | Expired |
| US4425559A | Method and apparatus for generating line segments and polygonal areas on a raster-type display | Physics | 78 | Expired |
| US4116444A | Method for generating a plurality of moving objects on a video display screen | Human Necessities | 73 | Expired |
| US4388620A | Method and apparatus for generating elliptical images on a raster-type video display | Physics | 56 | Expired |
| US4349708A | Joystick control | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 55 | Expired |
| US4084194A | Game cabinet | Human Necessities | 54 | Expired |
| US5113511A | System for dynamically providing predicted high/slow speed accessing memory to a processing unit based on instructions | Physics | 52 | Expired |
| US4324401A | Method and system for generating moving objects on a video display screen | Human Necessities | 52 | Expired |
| US4992631A | Multi-directional switch assembly | Electricity | 49 | Expired |
| US4104625A | Apparatus for providing facial image animation | Physics | 48 | Expired |
| US4862156A | Video computer system including multiple graphics controllers and associated method | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US4467412A | Slave processor with clock controlled by internal ROM & master processor | Human Necessities | 44 | Expired |
| US4445114A | Apparatus for scrolling a video display | Physics | 42 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.