Apple Inc. Expired Patents
44 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.
- 2019-09-12: Application 16569525; Invention Electronic Device Having a Composite Structure; Applicant Apple Inc.; Status Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362.
- 2019-05-03: Application 16403425; Invention Colored Coatings for Electronic Devices; Applicant Apple Inc.; Status Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362.
- 2019-05-02: Application 16401364; Invention General Purpose Input/; Applicant Apple Inc.; Status Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362.
- 2019-05-01: Application 16400354; Invention MULTI-MODAL HAPTIC FEEDBACK FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING A SINGLE HAPTIC ACTUATOR; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-12 | 16569525 | Electronic Device Having a Composite Structure | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2022-08-16 | 11418638 | US20200007670A1 | Abhijeet Misra Steven J. Osborne Ian A. Spraggs Marwan Rammah William A. Counts | United States United States United States United States United States | WU, JERRY |
| 2019-05-03 | 16403425 | Colored Coatings for Electronic Devices | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2022-07-26 | 11399442 | US20200015390A1 | Khadijeh Bayat Yoshitaka Matsui Naomi Sugawara Daisuke Nozu Xianwei Zhao Avery P. Yuen Martin Melcher James R. Wilson Di Fan | United States Japan Japan Japan United States United States United States United States United States | AUGHENBAUGH, WALTER |
| 2019-05-02 | 16401364 | General Purpose Input/ | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2022-07-12 | 11385982 | US20200349046A1 | Peter F. Holland Hari Ganesh R. Thirunageswaram | United States United States | SHIN, CHRISTOPHER B |
| 2019-05-01 | 16400354 | MULTI-MODAL HAPTIC FEEDBACK FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING A SINGLE HAPTIC ACTUATOR | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-10-19 | 11150731 | US20200103972A1 | Darya Amin-Shahidi Alex M. Lee | United States United States | PHAM, QUANG |
| 2019-04-30 | 16399958 | Compliant Material for Protecting Capacitive Force Sensors and Increasing Capacitive Sensitivity | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-02-16 | 10921943 | US20200348795A1 | Daniel J. Bechstein Collin R. Petty Martin P. Grunthaner Andrew W. Joyce John R. Matthews Pavan O. Gupta Albert Lin | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | RAYAN, MIHIR K |
| 2019-04-26 | 16396470 | AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION TRIGGERING SYSTEM | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-08-24 | 11102568 | US20190253785A1 | Sorin V. Dusan Aram M. Lindahl Robert D. Watson | United States United States United States | PAUL, DISLER |
| 2019-04-26 | 16395806 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS WITH FINGER DEVICES | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2022-06-14 | 11360558 | US20200026352A1 | Paul X. Wang Nicolai Georg Benjamin R. Blachnitzky Alhad A. Palkar Minhazul Islam Alex J. Lehmann Madeleine S. Cordier Joon-Sup Han Hongcheng Sun Sang E. Lee Kevin Z. Lo Lilli Ing-Marie Jonsson Luis Deliz Centeno Yuhao Pan Stephen E. Dey Paul N. DuMontelle Jonathan C. Atler Tianjia Sun Jian Li Chang Zhang | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | GIESY, ADAM |
| 2019-04-24 | 16393892 | BIASING A NOISE FILTER TO PRESERVE IMAGE TEXTURE | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-07-27 | 11074678 | US20200342579A1 | Sheng Lin Wu Cheng Maxim Smirnov | United States United States United States | MANGIALASCHI, TRACY |
| 2019-04-23 | 16391573 | Vehicle Video System | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2022-04-05 | 11297371 | Devin W. Chalmers Sean B. Kelly | United States United States | MENDOZA, JUNIOR O | |
| 2019-04-22 | 16391224 | TAGGING CLIPPED PIXELS FOR PYRAMID PROCESSING IN IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSOR | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-06-01 | 11024006 | US20200334787A1 | Maxim Smirnov Elena Lamburn Oren Kerem Chihsin Wu | United States United States United States United States | DESIRE, GREGORY M |
| 2019-04-22 | 16390870 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR METADATA TRANSFER AMONG SEARCH ENTITIES | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-09-07 | 11113299 | US20190317937A1 | Rishab Aiyer Ghosh Vipul Ved Prakash | United States United States | VU, BAI DUC |
| 2019-04-19 | 16389899 | NOISE MITIGATION FOR DISPLAY PANEL SENSING | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2020-08-25 | 10755618 | US20190244555A1 | Hung Sheng Lin Shengkui Gao Hyunwoo Nho Chin-Wei Lin Mohammad B. Vahid Far Jie Won Ryu Kingsuk Brahma Junhua Tan SUN-IL Chang Shinya Ono Jesse Aaron Richmond Yafei Bi Derek K. Shaeffer Myungjoon Choi Shiping Shen | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | AZONGHA, SARDIS F |
| 2019-04-15 | 16384716 | LOW POWER DISPLAY ON MODE FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-03-09 | 10943557 | US20190340998A1 | Yafei Bi Lei He Mohammad B. Vahid Far Mir B. Ghaderi Venu Madhav Duggineni Vanessa C. Heppolette Joshua P. De Cesare Hyuck-Jae Lee | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | CHOW, VAN NGUYEN |
| 2019-04-15 | 16384672 | SYSTEM INFORMATION IN UNLICENSED NARROWBAND INTERNET OF THINGS (NB-IOT) SYSTEMS | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-08-17 | 11096247 | US20190246454A1 | Huaning Niu Wenting Chang Qiaoyang Ye Salvatore Talarico Rongrong Sun | United States China United States United States China | CHOUDHURY, FAISAL |
| 2019-04-15 | 16384094 | Target Image Quality Enhancement Using A Guide Image | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2020-03-03 | 10582124 | US20190327411A1 | Farhan Baqai Zahra Sadeghipoor Kermani | United States United States | MONK, MARK T |
| 2019-04-12 | 16383411 | HAPTIC INTERFACE FOR USER INPUT DEVICE | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-07-20 | 11068059 | US20210018982A1 | Mark A. SALADA Michael BEYHS | United States United States | MCLOONE, PETER D |
| 2019-04-11 | 16381946 | GRANULAR ADJUSTMENT OF ANTENNA POWER IN MULTI-RADIO SYSTEMS | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-03-02 | 10939387 | US20200107274A1 | Digvijay Arjunrao Jadhav Indranil S. Sen Jonathan C. King Mohit Narang Prathyusha Sangepu Qiong Wu Shrenik Milapchand Vijay Gadde Yu Chen | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | SHERIF, FATUMA G |
| 2019-04-11 | 16381312 | REDUCTION OF LINE BANDING IMAGE ARTIFACTS | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-06-15 | 11037272 | US20200327644A1 | Sheng Lin David R. Pope | United States United States | PATEL, PINALBEN V |
| 2019-04-10 | 16380102 | POWER EFFICIENT OPERATION AT SIGNIFICANT LOCATIONS | APPLE INC. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2022-05-24 | 11343640 | US20200329338A1 | Srirang A. Lovlekar Murtaza A. Shikari Zheng Lu Pankaj Subhash Vasandani Srinivasan Nimmala Sethuraman Gurumoorthy Viswanath Nagarajan Lakshmi N. Kavuri Sridhar Prakasam Robert K. Kitchens Vijay Venkataraman Muthukumaran Dhanapal Xiangpeng Jing | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | AUNG, SAI |
| 2019-04-09 | 16379272 | Electronic Device Coatings With Ultraviolet Light Stability | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2022-01-11 | 11224138 | US20200084903A1 | Matthew S. Rogers Manish Mittal Marta M. Giachino | United States United States United States | ZHANG, RUIYUN |
| 2019-04-08 | 16378200 | Electronic Device Having Colored Surfaces With Neutral Transmission | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2022-01-18 | 11226444 | US20200096688A1 | James R. Wilson Liliya Lyandres Ove Lyngnes | United States United States United States | WILLIAMS, DON J |
| 2019-04-08 | 16377416 | OPEN-AIR EARBUDS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-04-27 | 10993010 | US20190238966A1 | Jeffrey Y. Hayashida | United States | ETESAM, AMIR HOSSEIN |
| 2019-04-05 | 16376961 | Electronic Devices Having Displays With Image Transport Layers | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2022-07-12 | 11388329 | Yi Qiao Michael J. Brown Jean-Pierre S. Guillou Tyler R. Kakuda Hao Dong Ying-Chih Wang | United States United States United States United States United States United States | SMITH, CHAD | |
| 2019-04-05 | 16376426 | BINNER CIRCUIT FOR IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSOR | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-06-01 | 11025842 | US20200322549A1 | Sheng Lin D. Amnon Silverstein | United States United States | PYO, KEVIN K |
| 2019-04-04 | 16375493 | WAFER LEVEL OPTICAL MODULE | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-04-27 | 10993317 | US20200107435A1 | Yinjuan He Karthik Shanmugam Peter R. Harper Tongbi Tom Jiang | United States Singapore United States United States | ENAD, CHRISTINE A |
| 2019-04-03 | 16374611 | EJECTABLE COMPONENT ASSEMBLIES IN ELECTRONIC DEVICES | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-06-29 | 11050865 | US20190230202A1 | Erik L. Wang Robert Sean Murphy Tang Yew Tan Jeffrey Eugene Neaves Lawrence E. Davis Sung H. Kim | United States United States United States United States United States United States | TRAN, TUAN A |
| 2019-03-29 | 16369319 | High Frame Rate Display | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-12-28 | 11211020 | US20190228726A1 | Shinya Ono Zino Lee Gihoon Choo Hassan Edrees Chin-Wei Lin | United States Korea, Republic Of United States United States United States | BIBBEE, CHAYCE R |
| 2019-03-27 | 16367020 | RETENTION SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2020-02-04 | 10548529 | US20190282163A1 | Ryan C. Perkins Trevor J. Ness Tobias J. Harrison-Noonan William H. Greenbaum Tyler S. Bushnell Guocheng Shao Guanyi Gao Christopher M. Werner Phil M. Hobson | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL |
| 2019-03-22 | 16361933 | SIGNAL ROUTING IN ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAYS | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2020-08-18 | 10748981 | Warren S. Rieutort-Louis Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari Jean-Pierre S. Guillou Tyler R. Kakuda | United States United States United States United States United States | EARLES, BRYAN E | |
| 2019-03-21 | 16360871 | PROCESS FOR INCORPORATING ZINC INTO A DYED ANODIZED LAYER FOR PROTECTING DYE COLORANTS FROM LIGHT EXPOSURE | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2022-06-28 | 11371157 | US20200173050A1 | James A. CURRAN Sonja R. POSTAK Karin H. RASMUSSEN James A. DEAN | United States United States United States United States | AUGUSTIN, CHRISTOPHER L |
| 2019-03-18 | 16357128 | PRIORITIZED EMAIL SYNCHRONIZATION WITH SERVER | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-08-10 | 11088979 | US20190281002A1 | Neil V. Jhaveri Gregory B. Vaughan Ian W. Anderson Jackson J. Gardner Phillip T. Tao | United States United States United States United States United States | STILTNER, WEIWEI YE |
| 2019-03-18 | 16356878 | MINIMIZE RADIO FREQUENCY CO-EXISTENCE IN PRODUCTS WITH LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAYS BY DIVERTING SURFACE CURRENT | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2020-10-13 | 10804584 | US20200303801A1 | Ali Foudazi Cheung-Wei Lam Mahmoud N. Mahmoud | United States United States United States | MATHEW, MAX |
| 2019-03-14 | 16353896 | SPLIT DRIVER BACKLIGHTSYSTEMS AND METHODS | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2020-07-28 | 10728969 | US20190215924A1 | Mohammad J. Navabi-Shirazi Alejandro Lara Ascorra Asif Hussain Ji Yeoul Ryoo Jingdong Chen Jun Qi Manisha P. Pandya Yanhui Xie | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | LE, TUNG X |
| 2019-03-13 | 16352801 | DIRECTIONAL BILATERAL FILTERING OF RAW IMAGE DATA | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-03-16 | 10949953 | US20200294199A1 | Sheng Lin David R. Pope | United States United States | MOYER, ANDREW M |
| 2019-03-12 | 16351353 | TOUCH-BASED INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2022-03-22 | 11281369 | US20190205028A1 | Behzad Aghaei Timothy V. Isted Maxwell O. Drukman Donald M. Firlik Christopher A. Lattner Kenneth S. Orr Andreas Wendker | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | SHIBEROU, MAHELET |
| 2019-03-11 | 16298987 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE MARKED USING LASER-FORMED PIXELS OF METAL OXIDES | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2022-07-19 | 11389903 | US20190299336A1 | Michael S. Nashner | United States | GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T |
| 2019-03-07 | 16295267 | System and Method for Synchronizing Media Presentation at Multiple Recipients | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-04-06 | 10972536 | US20190334985A1 | Bob Bradley Robert Dale Newberry JR. | United States United States | ANWAR, MOHAMMAD S |
| 2019-03-05 | 16292927 | VIBRATION DRIVEN HOUSING COMPONENT FOR AUDIO REPRODUCTION, HAPTIC FEEDBACK, AND FORCE SENSING | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-11-30 | 11188151 | US20200097086A1 | Tyler S. Bushnell Justin D. Crosby Kevin Truong Nikolas T. Vitt Daniel Corona | United States United States Canada United States United States | NEUPANE, KRISHNA P. |
| 2019-02-27 | 16328741 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR MEASURING NEIGHBORING INTER-FREQUENCY OR INTER-RAT CELLS | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-01-19 | 10897733 | US20190200270A1 | Zhibin YU Bernhard SOGL Markus Dominik MUECK Biljana BADIC | Germany Germany Germany Germany | LE, DANH C |
| 2019-02-26 | 16328456 | FREQUENCY HOPPING FOR UNLICENSED INTERNET OF THINGS | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2022-05-31 | 11350449 | US20210289547A1 | Qiaoyang Ye Huaning Niu Wenting Chang | United States United States China | D AGOSTA, STEPHEN M |
| 2019-02-26 | 16285419 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH A LIGHT GUIDING LAYER | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-05-11 | 11003015 | Yi Qiao Jean-Pierre S. Guillou Michael J. Brown Ming Xu Tyler R. Kakuda | United States United States United States United States United States | CHIEM, DINH D | |
| 2019-02-20 | 16326883 | Detection of Object Location and Orientation on a Wireless Charge Mat | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-10-26 | 11159065 | US20190190324A1 | Chad A. Bossetti Christopher S. Graham David W. Ritter Todd K. Moyer Steven G. Herbst Shimon Elkayam Nileshbhai J. Shah Stephen C. Terry Zaki Moussaoui | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | MURALIDAR, RICHARD V |
| 2019-01-23 | 16319886 | USING A MANAGED OBJECT OPERATION TO CONTROL A LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT OPERATION | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2022-05-10 | 11327787 | US20190266012A1 | Joey Chou | United States | BODDEN, EVRAL E |
| 2019-01-21 | 16253096 | INTELLIGENT DELIVERY AND ACQUISITION OF DIGITAL ASSETS | Apple Inc. | Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362 | 2021-06-29 | 11049173 | US20190228464A1 | Christopher B. Chang Sean B. Kelly Olagappan Manickam Thomas Alsina Payam Mirrashidi Michael Kuohao Chu Kevin R. Lafferty | United States United States United States United States United States United States United States | DAVISON, KATHLEEN GAGE |