Apple Inc. Active Patents
271 granted patents the USPTO still lists as patented, newest filing first, as the USPTO Open Data Portal records them; the company is the first-named applicant. The application number opens the full record at Patent Center.
- 2013-01-25: Application 13750518; Invention Conflict Avoidance in a Device Configured to Operate According to Multiple Cellular Communication Protocols; Applicant APPLE INC.; Status Patented Case.
- 2013-01-25: Application 13750199; Invention ACCESSIBILITY TECHINQUES FOR PRESENTATION OF SYMBOLIC EXPRESSIONS; Applicant APPLE INC.; Status Patented Case.
- 2013-01-25: Application 13750192; Invention CLOCK SIGNAL RATE MANAGEMENT CIRCUIT; Applicant APPLE INC.; Status Patented Case.
- 2013-01-25: Application 13750013; Invention Persistent Relocatable Reset Vector for Processor; Applicant APPLE INC.; Status Patented Case.
| Filed | Application | Invention | Applicant | Status | Granted | Patent | Published as | Inventor name | Inventor country | Examiner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-01-25 | 13750518 | Conflict Avoidance in a Device Configured to Operate According to Multiple Cellular Communication Protocols | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-03-31 | 8996044 | US20140073366A1 | Longda Xing Wen Zhao Jianxiong Shi | United States United States United States | TAYLOR, BARRY W |
| 2013-01-25 | 13750199 | ACCESSIBILITY TECHINQUES FOR PRESENTATION OF SYMBOLIC EXPRESSIONS | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-03-29 | 9298360 | US20140210828A1 | Christopher B. Fleizach Eric T. Seymour Gregory F. Hughes Mike Pedersen | United States United States United States United States | SHIN, ANDREW |
| 2013-01-25 | 13750192 | CLOCK SIGNAL RATE MANAGEMENT CIRCUIT | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2014-10-21 | 8867695 | US20140211906A1 | Gilbert Herbeck | United States | LAM, TUAN THIEU |
| 2013-01-25 | 13750013 | Persistent Relocatable Reset Vector for Processor | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2018-05-01 | 9959120 | US20140215182A1 | Josh P. de Cesare Gerard R. Williams III Michael J. Smith Wei-Han Lien | United States United States United States United States | CHOUDHURY, ZAHID |
| 2013-01-25 | 13749999 | Multi-Level Dispatch for a Superscalar Processor | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-05-10 | 9336003 | US20140215188A1 | John H. Mylius Gerard R. Williams III Shyam Sundar Balasubramanian Conrado Blasco-Allue | United States United States United States United States | SNYDER, STEVEN G |
| 2013-01-23 | 13748353 | LIQUID ACTIVATED FAILSAFE FOR PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICES | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-07-28 | 9093835 | US20140203665A1 | Daniel GOODMAN Paul Lazarescu | United States United States | DEBERADINIS, ROBERT L |
| 2013-01-23 | 13747977 | Arithmetic Branch Fusion | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2017-06-06 | 9672037 | US20140208073A1 | Conrado Blasco-Allue Sandeep Gupta | United States United States | SNYDER, STEVEN G |
| 2013-01-23 | 13747876 | LOW-PROFILE SPEAKER ARRANGEMENTS FOR COMPACT ELECTRONIC DEVICES | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-04-19 | 9319760 | US20130136289A1 | Ruchi Goel Stephen R. McClure | United States United States | KURR, JASON R |
| 2013-01-22 | 13747383 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ERROR RATE ESTIMATION | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2014-11-25 | 8897398 | US20130195160A1 | Colin Whitby-Strevens | United States | HEARD, ERIN FILE |
| 2013-01-22 | 13747287 | REDUCING ROUND-TRIP TIMES FOR TCP COMMUNICATIONS | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-03-22 | 9294409 | US20140204737A1 | Wen Zhao Wenping Lou | United States United States | KO, SITHU |
| 2013-01-22 | 13747264 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR THE INTELLIGENT SCRAMBLING OF CONTROL SYMBOLS | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2017-12-05 | 9838226 | US20130195218A1 | Colin Whitby-Strevens | United States | YU, LIHONG |
| 2013-01-22 | 13747244 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY RESIZING ENCLOSED STORAGE DEVICE PARTITIONS | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-04-28 | 9021457 | US20140208091A1 | Ben A. KONING Jim F. KATELEY | United States United States | LUU, BINH K |
| 2013-01-22 | 13746990 | Detecting Mobile Access Points | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-08-02 | 9408178 | US20140206379A1 | Robert Mayor Ronald Keryuan Huang Yefim Grosman | United States United States United States | LAM, DUNG LE |
| 2013-01-22 | 13746900 | MULTI-DRIVER EARBUD | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-06-09 | 9055366 | US20140205131A1 | Yacine Azmi Arun D. Chawan | United States United States | DABNEY, PHYLESHA LARVINIA |
| 2013-01-22 | 13746837 | METHODS FOR PREFIX INDEXING | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2014-12-16 | 8914377 | US20130159315A1 | John M. Hornkvist Erie R. Koebler | United States United States | NGUYEN, THU N |
| 2013-01-22 | 13746549 | Synchronized Ambient Light Sensor and Display | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-05-05 | 9024530 | US20140132158A1 | Brian R. Land Prashanth S. S. Holenarsipur Terry Gilton Paul S. Drzaic Wei H. Yao | United States United States United States United States United States | WHITE, DYLAN C |
| 2013-01-22 | 13746494 | FAST TRANSITION FROM PCH TO DCH FOR UMTS | Apple Inc. | Patented Case | 2015-04-14 | 9008023 | US20140204845A1 | Samy Khay-Ibbat | United States | NGUYEN, BRIAN D |
| 2013-01-21 | 13746247 | Numerically-Controlled Oscillator | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-05-05 | 9024699 | US20140203884A1 | Kleanthes G. Koniaris Erik P. Machnicki Shane J. Keil | United States United States United States | SHIN, JEFFREY M |
| 2013-01-21 | 13746222 | TECHNIQUES FOR PRESENTING USER ADJUSTMENTS TO A DIGITAL IMAGE | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-03-10 | 8977077 | US20140205207A1 | Nikhil M. Bhatt | United States | NIU, FENG |
| 2013-01-21 | 13745970 | SENDING AN IDENTIFIER OF A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK TO ENABLE HANDOFF OF A MOBILE STATION TO THE WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-02-17 | 8958391 | US20130136105A1 | Anit Lohtia Yuqiang Tang Miroslav Budic | United States China United States | CHAN, SAI MING |
| 2013-01-18 | 13745731 | SELECTIVELY PERMITTING AN APPARATUS TO BE AWAKENED DEPENDING ON A PROGRAMMABLE SETTING | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2017-05-09 | 9645630 | US20140208135A1 | Shane J. Keil Erik P. Machnicki Josh P. de Cesare | United States United States United States | CASSITY, ROBERT A |
| 2013-01-18 | 13745480 | MEDIA PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2014-04-29 | 8713214 | US20130131852A1 | David G. Conroy Steve Schell Barry Corlett Neil D. Warren Aram Lindahl | United States United States United States United States United States | NAM, HYUN |
| 2013-01-18 | 13745284 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING THE OPERATION OF REMINDERS BASED ON DEVICE EVENT HISTORY | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-10-20 | 9167388 | US20140206328A1 | Devrim Varoglu Natalia Ziemianska Ravisastry R. Parupudi | United States United States United States | BHATTACHARYA, SAM |
| 2013-01-18 | 13745042 | INTERWORKING BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND AUTHENTICATION DOMAINS | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2014-09-16 | 8839378 | US20130133047A1 | Yusupha Touray Fayaz Kadri David Anderson | Canada Canada Canada | TRAORE, FATOUMATA |
| 2013-01-18 | 13745023 | LOCATION SHARING | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2019-07-30 | 10368199 | US20130137462A1 | Marcel MWA Van Os Scott Herz Mike Matas | United States United States United States | D AGOSTA, STEPHEN M |
| 2013-01-18 | 13745012 | MANAGING NOTIFICATION MESSAGES | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2014-03-18 | 8676238 | US20130130730A1 | Christopher Marcellino Justin Santamaria | United States United States | MEHRPOUR, NAGHMEH |
| 2013-01-18 | 13744637 | Modified Quality of Service (QoS) Thresholds | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-02-24 | 8963938 | US20140204100A1 | Peter F. Holland | United States | CRAWFORD, JACINTA M |
| 2013-01-18 | 13744547 | Method and Apparatus For Automatically Adjusting the Operation of Notifications Based on Changes in Physical Activity Level | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-12-08 | 9210566 | US20140206327A1 | Natalia A. Ziemianska Devrim Varoglu | United States United States | BEAMER, TEMICA M |
| 2013-01-17 | 13744349 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR ACCESSING AN APPLICATION IN A LOCKED DEVICE | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-12-15 | 9213822 | US20130191911A1 | Richard R. Dellinger Imran Chaudhri Gregory Christie Scott Forstall Paul M. Hubel | United States United States United States United States United States | TOLENTINO, RODERICK |
| 2013-01-17 | 13744343 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR ACCESSING AN APPLICATION IN A LOCKED DEVICE | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-06-21 | 9372978 | US20130191910A1 | Richard R. Dellinger Imran Chaudhri Gregory Christie Scott Forstall | United States United States United States United States | SAVENKOV, VADIM |
| 2013-01-17 | 13744007 | STREAMING ZIP | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-08-16 | 9420070 | US20140201316A1 | Paul William Chinn Eric Olaf Carlson Ronnie Misra | United States United States United States | HIGA, BRENDAN Y |
| 2013-01-17 | 13744004 | RESET EXTENDER FOR DIVIDED CLOCK DOMAINS | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2014-07-22 | 8786332 | US20140197870A1 | Erik P. Machnicki David S. Warren Shane J. Keil Sukalpa Biswas | United States United States United States United States | HERNANDEZ, WILLIAM |
| 2013-01-17 | 13743706 | FINGER SENSOR HAVING PIXEL SENSING CIRCUITRY FOR COUPLING ELECTRODES AND PIXEL SENSING TRACES AND RELATED METHODS | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-06-14 | 9367173 | US20130181949A1 | Dale R. SETLAK | United States | FARAGALLA, MICHAEL A |
| 2013-01-16 | 13743246 | Location-Assisted Service Capability Monitoring | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-08-30 | 9432961 | US20140199980A1 | Bharath Narasimha Rao Cherif Jazra Leonardo A. Soto Matamala | United States United States United States | MILLER, BRANDON J |
| 2013-01-16 | 13743242 | LOCATION ASSISTED SERVICE CAPABILITY MONITORING | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2017-03-14 | 9596670 | US20140200038A1 | Bharath Narasimha Rao Cherif Jazra Leonardo A. Soto Matamala | United States United States United States | MILLER, BRANDON J |
| 2013-01-16 | 13742766 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR SUPPRESSING DUPLICATE NETWORK RESOURCES | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2014-09-02 | 8825868 | US20130166756A1 | Kevin Arnold David M. O'Rourke | United States United States | TRUONG, LAN DAI T |
| 2013-01-16 | 13742425 | Bump or Close Proximity Triggered Wireless Technology | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-09-13 | 9445267 | US20140199967A1 | Devrim Varoglu Gencer Cili Ravisastry R. Parupudi | United States United States United States | HUYNH, NAM TRUNG |
| 2013-01-15 | 13742056 | CONTROLLING A POWER STATE OF A CELLULAR PACKET DATA SUBSYSTEM IN A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-09-20 | 9451551 | US20140177495A1 | Raghuveer Mallikarjunan Sarin S. Mehta | United States United States | KO, SITHU |
| 2013-01-15 | 13741811 | DEFERRED INTER-PROCESSOR INTERRUPTS | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-12-08 | 9208113 | US20140201411A1 | Derek R. Kumar Joshua Phillips de Cesare | United States United States | MYERS, PAUL R |
| 2013-01-14 | 13741227 | BRANCH AUDITING IN A COMPUTER PROGRAM | APPLE, INC. | Patented Case | 2015-06-02 | 9047448 | US20140201720A1 | Cedric Tessier Daniel Reynaud Jean-Baptise Aviat Jonathan Gregory McLachlan Julien Lerouge Pierre Betouin | France United States France United States United States France | RIVERA, ANIBAL |
| 2013-01-11 | 13740081 | Infrared Sensors for Electronic Devices | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-03-17 | 8981302 | US20140197317A1 | Henry H. Yang Matthew E. Last | United States United States | TANINGCO, MARCUS H |
| 2013-01-11 | 13740031 | Migration of Feedback Data to Equivalent Digital Assets | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-07-21 | 9087341 | US20140201147A1 | Andrew M. Wadycki Ashish Sharma Michael H. Walker Ricardo D. Cortes Sebastien P. Sahuc Tracy L. Pirnack | United States United States United States United States United States United States | SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM |
| 2013-01-11 | 13739917 | CONFIGURABLE TESTING PLATFORMS FOR CIRCUIT BOARDS WITH REMOVABLE TEST POINT PORTIONS | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-12-06 | 9513314 | US20130127488A1 | Michael Rosenblatt W. Bryson Gardner JR. Amir Salehi Tony Aghazarian | United States United States United States United States | NGUYEN, VINCENT Q |
| 2013-01-11 | 13739546 | VARIABLE PRE-CHARGE LEVELS FOR IMPROVED CELL STABILITY | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-02-03 | 8947963 | US20140198594A1 | Edward M. McCombs | United States | TRAN, ANTHAN |
| 2013-01-11 | 13739267 | SEARCH ASSISTANT FOR DIGITAL MEDIA ASSETS | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2014-01-28 | 8639716 | US20130191408A1 | Christopher Volkert | United States | SPIELER, WILLIAM |
| 2013-01-10 | 13738908 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH DISPLAY AND LOW-NOISE AMBIENT LIGHT SENSOR WITH A CONTROL CIRCUITRY THAT PERIODICALLY DISABLES THE DISPLAY (AS AMENDED) | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-03-24 | 8987652 | US20140166850A1 | Dong Zheng | United States | LE, QUE TAN |
| 2013-01-10 | 13738769 | Proximity Sensors with Smudge Detection Capabilities | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-08-04 | 9098124 | US20140191110A1 | Prashanth S. S. Holenarsipur | United States | LE, QUE TAN |
| 2013-01-10 | 13738107 | CERAMIC INSERT CONTROL MECHANISM | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-01-05 | 9232672 | US20140192459A1 | Kelvin Kwong Benjamin J. Pope Nicholas G. Merz | United States United States United States | JIMENEZ, ANTHONY R |
| 2013-01-10 | 13738096 | COMMUNICATION DURING THERMAL MITIGATION | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-11-01 | 9485742 | US20140194134A1 | Kwangho Byun Rajesh Ambati Syed A. Rahim Someet K. Lal | United States United States United States United States | AHSAN, UMAIR |
| 2013-01-10 | 13738083 | RECOVERY FROM UPLINK TIMING ALIGNMENT FAILURES IN CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-12-08 | 9210673 | US20140064195A1 | Si Li Giri Prassad Deivasigamani | United States United States | O CONNOR, BRIAN T |
| 2013-01-09 | 13737929 | LOGICAL VOLUME SPACE SHARING | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-09-15 | 9134908 | US20140195761A1 | Deric S. HORN David A. MAJNEMER Wenguang WANG | United States United States United States | THAI, TUAN V |
| 2013-01-09 | 13737927 | SIMULATED INPUT/ | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-08-16 | 9418181 | US20140195217A1 | Andrew D. MYRICK John E. KELLEY | United States United States | MAPAR, BIJAN |
| 2013-01-09 | 13737925 | Tool for Navigating a Composite Presentation | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-04-19 | 9317172 | US20130124992A1 | Charles Lyons Wendy Van Wazer Lisa Diener Douglas DeVore Peter Warner | United States United States United States United States France | LOWENBERGER, AARON J |
| 2013-01-08 | 13736846 | MAINTAINING I/ | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-02-17 | 8959263 | US20140195699A1 | Joseph Sokol JR. Manoj Radhakrishnan Matthew J. Byom Robert Hoopes Christopher Sarcone | United States United States United States United States United States | SHIN, CHRISTOPHER B |
| 2013-01-08 | 13736817 | FAST NEW FILE CREATION CACHE | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2018-09-11 | 10073851 | US20140195571A1 | Wenguang Wang David A. Majnemer Deric S. Horn | United States United States United States | BROOKS, DAVID T |
| 2013-01-08 | 13736741 | Dynamic Presentation of Navigation Instructions | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2014-10-14 | 8862387 | US20140195143A1 | Anil K. Kandangath Xiaoyuan Tu | United States United States | BEAULIEU, YONEL |
| 2013-01-08 | 13736725 | GROUP FORMATION WITHIN A SYNCHRONIZED HIERARCHY OF PEER-TO-PEER DEVICES | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2019-04-23 | 10271293 | US20130185373A1 | Pierre B. Vandwalle Christiaan A. Hartman | United States United States | CADORNA, CHRISTOPHER PALACA |
| 2013-01-08 | 13736706 | ADDRESS SPOOFING PREVENTION | APPLE, INC. | Patented Case | 2015-12-08 | 9210575 | US20130128799A1 | Pierre Lescuyer Thierry Lucidarme | France France | PHAM, BRENDA H |
| 2013-01-08 | 13736676 | ION IMPLANT INDICIA FOR COVER GLASS OR DISPLAY COMPONENT | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-07-28 | 9092187 | US20140192467A1 | Kelvin Kwong | United States | HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL |
| 2013-01-08 | 13736462 | MULTI-TIER SWITCH INTERFACE UNIT ARBITER | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2014-10-21 | 8867533 | US20140192801A1 | Erik P. Machnicki | United States | PHAN, TRI H |
| 2013-01-08 | 13736245 | FLOW-ID DEPENDENCY CHECKING LOGIC | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-12-01 | 9201791 | US20140195740A1 | Gurjeet S. Saund Harshavardhan Kaushikkar | United States United States | PEREZ-VELEZ, ROCIO DEL MAR |
| 2013-01-07 | 13736008 | PARALLEL SENSING CONFIGURATION COVERS SPECTRUM AND COLORIMETRIC QUANTITIES WITH SPATIAL RESOLUTION | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-07-07 | 9076363 | US20140192209A1 | Ye YIN Gabriel Marcu Julia C. Davoud | United States United States United States | AYUB, HINA F |
| 2013-01-07 | 13735899 | ACCESSORY DEVICE AUTHENTICATION USING LIST OF KNOWN GOOD DEVICES MAINTAINED BY HOST DEVICE | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2014-12-30 | 8925069 | US20140196142A1 | Sylvain Louboutin Lawrence G. Bolton | United States United States | PATEL, HARESH N |
| 2013-01-07 | 13735694 | Usefulness Indication For Indirect Branch Prediction Training | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-04-12 | 9311100 | US20140195789A1 | Sandeep Gupta Shyam Sundar Wei-Han Lien Gerard R. Williams III Conrado Blasco-Allue | United States United States United States United States United States | HUSON, ZACHARY K |
| 2013-01-07 | 13735360 | Multi-Antenna Scheduling System and Method | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2013-10-15 | 8559994 | US20130122948A1 | Ming Jia Jianglei Ma Jianming Wu Peiying Zhu Wen Tong | Canada Canada Canada Canada Canada | PEREZ, JAMES M |
| 2013-01-04 | 13734852 | Fine-Tuning an Operation Based on Tapping | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-07-21 | 9086796 | US20140194163A1 | Maxim Tsudik | Israel | HANNON, CHRISTIAN A |
| 2013-01-04 | 13734839 | Moving A Virtual Object Based on Tapping | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-05-31 | 9354786 | US20140195987A1 | Maxim Tsudik | Israel | SHREWSBURY, NATHAN K |
| 2013-01-04 | 13734444 | FLUSH ENGINE | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2015-09-08 | 9128857 | US20140195737A1 | Brian P. Lilly Gerard R. Williams III | United States United States | BRADLEY, MATTHEW A |
| 2013-01-04 | 13734067 | Method and System for Maintaining Multiple PDN Network Connection During Inter-Technology Handover in Idle Mode | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2014-10-21 | 8867491 | US20130142172A1 | Eric Parsons Saso Stojanovski | Canada France | BOAKYE, ALEXANDER O |
| 2013-01-03 | 13733775 | POWER CONTROL FOR CACHE STRUCTURES | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-04-19 | 9317102 | US20140189411A1 | Muditha Kanchana Gurjeet S. Saund Harshavardhan Kaushikkar Erik P. Machnicki Seye Ewedemi | United States United States United States United States United States | ELAMIN, ABDELMONIEM I |
| 2013-01-02 | 13732966 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH LIGHT SENSORS AND DISPLAYS | APPLE INC. | Patented Case | 2016-04-12 | 9310843 | US20140183342A1 | Anna-Katrina Shedletsky Paul S. Drzaic Erik G. de Long Fletcher R. Rothkopf | United States United States United States United States | SOHN, SEUNG C |