Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Patrick J. Naughton

23Patents
16h-index
19Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 23, 1993 → Jul 20, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6020881A Graphical user interface with method and apparatus for interfacing to remote devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 720 Expired
US5886697A Method and apparatus for improved graphical user interface having anthropomorphic characters Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 432 Expired
US5651107A Method and apparatus for presenting information in a display system using transparent windows Physics 418 Expired
US6344861B1 Graphical user interface for displaying and manipulating objects Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 256 Expired
US6160551A Graphical user interface for displaying and manipulating objects Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 247 Expired
US5995106A Graphical user interface for displaying and navigating in a directed graph structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 184 Expired
US7240289B2 Graphical user interface for displaying and navigating in a directed graph structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 163 Expired
US6154209A Graphical user interface with method and apparatus for interfacing to remote devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 155 Expired
US6384840B1 Method and apparatus for presenting information in a display system using transparent windows Physics 87 Expired
US6694486B2 Method and apparatus for presenting information in a display system using transparent windows Physics 84 Expired
US5999191A Method and apparatus for presenting information in a display system using transparent windows Physics 63 Expired
USD432593S Toy house General 45 Expired
US5519825A Method and apparatus for NTSC display of full range animation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
USD439568S Agent icon for a display screen of a programmed computer system General 28 Expired
US6995558B2 System and method for characterizing a sample by low-frequency spectra Physics 25 Expired
USD386167S Agent icon for a display screen of a programmed computer system General 22 Expired
US5864343A Method and apparatus for generating three dimensional effects in a two dimensional graphical user interface Physics 13 Expired
USD389134S Agent icon for a display screen of a programmed computer system General 12 Expired
US9417257B2 System and method for collecting, storing, processing, transmitting and presenting very low amplitude signals Physics 7 Active
US5512918A High speed method and apparatus for generating animation by means of a three-region frame buffer and associated region pointers Physics 7 Expired
USD401922S Agent icon for a display screen of a programmed computer system General 7 Expired
US6184890A Method and apparatus for rendering objects on a display with added realism Physics 2 Expired
US5959638A Method and apparatus for constructing a frame buffer with a fast copy means Physics 2 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.