Apple Inc. Expired Patents
143 granted patents the USPTO lists as expired; the status gives the reason, 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.
- 2013-01-28: Application 13752319; Invention ADAPTIVE DATA CONNECTION RETRY BY A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE; Applicant APPLE INC.; Status Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362.
- 2013-01-28: Application 13752263; Invention ULTRASONIC BONDING; Applicant APPLE INC.; Status Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362.
- 2013-01-25: Application 13750961; Invention PROXIMITY SENSORS WITH OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL SENSING CAPABILITIES; Applicant APPLE INC.; Status Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362.
- 2013-01-25: Application 13750266; Invention DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF BUFFERS FOR DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS; Applicant APPLE INC.; Status Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362.
| Filed | Application | Invention | Applicant | Status | Granted | Patent | Published as | Inventor name | Inventor country | Examiner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-01-28 | 13752319 | ADAPTIVE DATA CONNECTION RETRY BY A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2017-05-23 | 9660919 | US20140215081A1 | Gencer CILI Qi HE Devrim VAROGLU | United States United States United States | STRANGE, AARON N |
| 2013-01-28 | 13752263 | ULTRASONIC BONDING | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-08-12 | 8800846 | US20130193193A1 | Michael NIKKHOO | United States | STONER, KILEY SHAWN |
| 2013-01-25 | 13750961 | PROXIMITY SENSORS WITH OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL SENSING CAPABILITIES | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2015-07-21 | 9088282 | US20140213323A1 | Prashanth S. S. Holenarsipur Anant Rai David Lukofsky | United States United States United States | TAYLOR, BARRY W |
| 2013-01-25 | 13750266 | DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF BUFFERS FOR DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-05-20 | 8732352 | Gilbert Herbeck | United States | TSENG, CHENG YUAN | |
| 2013-01-25 | 13750263 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH CONNECTOR FAULT PROTECTION CIRCUITRY | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2015-08-04 | 9099864 | US20140211351A1 | Eugene L. Shoykhet Yehonatan Perez | United States United States | LEJA, RONALD W |
| 2013-01-24 | 13749645 | INDUCTION BONDING | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-04-22 | 8701966 | US20130186941A1 | Michael Nikkhoo Amir Salehi | United States United States | STONER, KILEY SHAWN |
| 2013-01-24 | 13749624 | WEATHER-BASED REMINDERS | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2018-07-10 | 10019888 | US20140203940A1 | Matthew R. Bonner | United States | BURGDORF, STEPHEN R |
| 2013-01-23 | 13748232 | CONTEXTUAL MATTE BARS FOR ASPECT RATIO FORMATTING | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2015-12-15 | 9215501 | US20140204127A1 | Christopher P. Tann Robert L. Ridenour Sandro H. Pintz | United States United States United States | RICKS, DONNA J |
| 2013-01-23 | 13748184 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA OBFUSCATION BASED ON DISCRETE LOGARITHM PROPERTIES | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2013-07-23 | 8495390 | US20130138973A1 | Augustin J. Farrugia Benoit Chevallier-Mames Mathieu Ciet Jon McLachlan | United States France France United States | NGUYEN, TRONG H |
| 2013-01-23 | 13748145 | METHODS FOR MANAGING AUTHORITY DESIGNATION OF GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-06-10 | 8752070 | US20130139064A1 | Philip J. Holland Ivan Krstic Pierre-Olivier J. Martel | United States United States United States | HO, ANDY |
| 2013-01-23 | 13747872 | LOW COMPLEXITY GATE LINE DRIVER CIRCUITRY | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2016-04-19 | 9317151 | US20130300681A1 | Abbas Jamshidi-Roudbari Cheng-Ho Yu Shih Chang Chang Ting-Kuo Chang | United States United States United States United States | LAMB, CHRISTOPHER RAY |
| 2013-01-23 | 13747559 | Sign Equalization in Iterative Decoding of Sparse Graph Codes | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-10-14 | 8862959 | Ronen Dar Tomer Ish-Shalom | Israel Israel | ABRAHAM, ESAW T | |
| 2013-01-22 | 13747205 | TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXED DATA BUS INTERFACE | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2018-12-04 | 10146732 | US20140207983A1 | Girault W. Jones Nathan A. Johanningsmeier Casey L. Hardy | United States United States United States | ZAMAN, FAISAL M |
| 2013-01-22 | 13746603 | TECHNIQUES FOR MARKING PRODUCT HOUSINGS | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2015-11-10 | 9185835 | US20130129986A1 | Richard Walter Heley Erming Luo Adam Mittleman John Payne Tang Yew Tan Erik Wang | United States United States United States United States United States United States | DUDA, KATHLEEN |
| 2013-01-18 | 13745654 | TOUCH PAD ELECTRODE DESIGN | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-05-13 | 8723830 | US20130127781A1 | Steve Porter HOTELLING Kenneth Lawrence Staton | United States United States | WILLIS, RANDAL L |
| 2013-01-18 | 13744852 | Detecting Skin Tone in Images | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-03-18 | 8675960 | US20130129209A1 | Russell Reid Nikhil Bhatt | United States United States | LIU, LI |
| 2013-01-18 | 13744515 | Image Preprocessing | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-02-25 | 8660323 | US20130148887A1 | Robert Mikio Free | United States | LE, HA N |
| 2013-01-17 | 13744049 | ADAPTIVE SCALER SWITCHING | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2016-12-06 | 9516305 | US20140072029A1 | Jiefu ZHAI Douglas PRICE Albert KEINATH Xiaosong ZHOU Hsi-Jung WU | United States United States United States United States United States | PHILIPPE, GIMS S |
| 2013-01-17 | 13743893 | Illuminant Estimation | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-08-19 | 8811729 | US20130129204A1 | Graham D. Finlayson Clement Fredembach | United Kingdom Switzerland | LIU, LI |
| 2013-01-17 | 13743721 | Adaptation of Analog Memory Cell Read Thresholds Using Partial ECC Syndromes | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-10-21 | 8869008 | US20140201596A1 | Barak Baum Micha Anholt | Israel Israel | ABRAHAM, ESAW T |
| 2013-01-17 | 13743544 | Memory Compression Technique with Low Latency per Pixel | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-10-21 | 8866646 | US20130129246A1 | Jeffrey E. Frederiksen Michael Frank | United States United States | WILLIAMS, HOWARD L |
| 2013-01-17 | 13743429 | DYNAMIC FOREIGN AGENT-HOME AGENT SECURITY ASSOCIATION ALLOCATION FOR IP MOBILITY SYSTEMS | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2013-12-24 | 8615658 | US20130130655A1 | Ahmad Muhanna Mohamed Khalil | United States United States | KOSOWSKI, CAROLYN M |
| 2013-01-15 | 13741834 | MANAGEMENT OF UNWANTED CALLS AND/ | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2016-01-19 | 9241245 | US20140199975A1 | Wenping Lou Wen Zhao | China United States | MIZRAHI, DIANE D |
| 2013-01-15 | 13741655 | Linear Transform-Based Image Processing Techniques | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2015-11-17 | 9189833 | US20140198992A1 | Roumen N. Popov | United States | WU, JINGGE |
| 2013-01-15 | 13741436 | PROGRAM COUNTER (PC) TRACE | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2013-11-12 | 8583967 | US20130132781A1 | Kevin R. Walker John H. Mylius | United States United States | BONZO, BRYCE P |
| 2013-01-11 | 13740089 | COMPOSITE CARRIER FRAME FOR PLASTIC INJECTION MOLDING | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2015-09-01 | 9120257 | US20140199422A1 | Scott M. NATHANSON | United States | HINDENLANG, ALISON L |
| 2013-01-11 | 13739253 | BYPASSING SECURITY AUTHENTICATION SCHEME ON A LOST DEVICE TO RETURN THE DEVICE TO THE OWNER | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2017-09-12 | 9763098 | US20140199966A1 | Asaf Schushan | Israel | PEREZ, JULIO R |
| 2013-01-10 | 13738932 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH CIRCUITRY TO DETECT THE INSERTION ORIENTATION OF A PLUG CONNECTOR | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2013-09-17 | 8535075 | Albert J. Golko Mathias W. Schmidt Eric S. Jol Johan Minoo Ian Spraggs Cameron Frazier Fletcher Rothkopf Jonathan Aase Wendell Sander Jeffrey J. Terlizzi | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | GUSHI, ROSS N | |
| 2013-01-10 | 13738712 | CONDITION BASED CONTROLS FOR A DISPLAY BASED ON AT LEAST ONE OPERATING PARAMETER | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2015-08-18 | 9110527 | US20130328799A1 | Yafei Bi Thomas J. Wilson Wei H. Yao Hopil Bae | United States United States United States United States | DANIELSEN, NATHAN ANDREW |
| 2013-01-10 | 13738506 | Methods for Testing Receiver Sensitivity of Wireless Electronic Devices | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2015-07-28 | 9094840 | US20140194069A1 | Song Liu Tomoki Takeya Adil Syed Vishwanath Venkataraman | United States United States United States United States | LE, NHAN T |
| 2013-01-10 | 13738200 | SAPPHIRE COMPONENT WITH RESIDUAL COMPRESSIVE STRESS | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2017-04-18 | 9623628 | US20140193606A1 | Kelvin Kwong | United States | QI, HUA |
| 2013-01-10 | 13738118 | GROUP CALL MANAGEMENT | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-02-11 | 8649814 | US20130130668A1 | Joerg Becker Martin Sauter Timothy Longman | Germany Germany United Kingdom | MAGLOIRE, VLADIMIR |
| 2013-01-09 | 13737779 | TOUCH SENSOR PANEL DESIGN | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2013-11-26 | 8593425 | US20130120303A1 | Seung Jae HONG Martin Paul Grunthaner Steven Porter Hotelling Lynn Youngs | United States United States United States United States | ZUBAJLO, JENNIFER L |
| 2013-01-08 | 13736211 | CONTROLLING WIRELESS SCANS USED TO DETERMINE THE LOCATION OF A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2017-08-29 | 9749800 | US20140179344A1 | Monika Bansal Devrim Varoglu Swapnil R. Dave | United States United States United States | NAVAR, ERICA |
| 2013-01-07 | 13735807 | INVERTIBLE EAR TIPS FOR AN EAR PIECE | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2013-11-26 | 8590665 | US20130118829A1 | Kurt Stiehl Emery Sanford | United States United States | SAN MARTIN, EDGARDO |
| 2013-01-07 | 13735539 | MULTIPLE FUNCTION INLINE CONTROLLER WITH BUTTONS EXTENDING ALONG DIFFERENT AXES | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-06-17 | 8754340 | US20130118877A1 | Christopher Prest Kurt Stiehl Cameron Frazier Wim Crooijmans Michelle Yu | United States United States United States United States United States | GIRARDI, VANESSA MARY |
| 2013-01-04 | 13734752 | CONFIGURABLE OFFLINE DATA STORE | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-09-23 | 8843530 | US20130124580A1 | Bruce Gaya | United States | ALLEN, NICHOLAS E |
| 2013-01-04 | 13734723 | PREDICTING CONTENT AND CONTEXT PERFORMANCE BASED ON PERFORMANCE HISTORY OF USERS | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-08-19 | 8812494 | US20130132391A1 | Eswar Priyadarshan Dan Marius Grigorovici Ravikiran Chittari Prasenjit Mukherjee Omar Abdala | United States United States United States India United States | NGUYEN, MERILYN P |
| 2013-01-04 | 13734335 | ADAPTIVE ESTIMATION OF MEMORY CELL READ THRESHOLDS | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2013-10-01 | 8547740 | US20130121080A1 | Naftali Sommer Ofir Shalvi Uri Perlmutter Oren Golov Eyal Gurgi Micha Anholt Dotan Sokolov | Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel | LE, TOAN K |
| 2013-01-04 | 13734152 | PUSH NOTIFICATION SERVICE | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2015-12-08 | 9210685 | US20130142147A1 | Kris M. Bell Darryl N. Bleau Jeffrey T. Davey | United States United States United States | CAI, WAYNE HUU |
| 2013-01-03 | 13733786 | USING PROXIMATE ACCESS POINTS TO ENSURE FAST WI-FI NETWORK DISCOVERY AND RECONNECTION WITH REDUCED POWER CONSUMPTION | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2016-08-02 | 9408140 | US20140185599A1 | Songkran Vatanapanpilas Naresh Kumar Chinnathambi Kailasam | United States United States | LEE, KEVIN H |
| 2013-01-02 | 13733070 | APPROACH FOR DOWNLOADING DATA OVER NETWORKS USING AUTOMATIC BANDWIDTH DETECTION | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2016-09-13 | 9444879 | US20130185388A1 | David J. MACKIE | United States | SERRAO, RANODHI N |
| 2013-01-02 | 13733022 | CAMERA AS INPUT INTERFACE | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2014-10-07 | 8855707 | US20130116007A1 | Chad G. Seguin Justin Gregg Michael M. Lee | United States United States United States | ALAM, FAYYAZ |