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Colin M. Ely — 14 Patents in 2018

Apple: 14 patents #79 of 3,694Top 3%
Sunnyvale, CA: #15 of 2,644 inventorsTop 1%
California: #513 of 60,411 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (2018): #3,363 of 503,207Top 1%
14 Patents 2018

Issued Patents 2018

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10164688 Actuator assisted alignment of connectible devices Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Haran Balaram 2018-12-25
10145711 Optical encoder with direction-dependent optical properties having an optically anisotropic region to produce a first and a second light distribution Paisith P. Boonsom, Serhan O. Isikman, Richard Ruh, Prashanth S. Holenarsipur, William N. Pickeral +5 more 2018-12-04 $82,334,000
10102985 Thin profile sealed button assembly David M. Pelletier, Brad G. Boozer 2018-10-16 $96,757,000
10078350 Button retention, assembly, and water sealing 2018-09-18 $166,822,000
10048802 Rejection of false turns of rotary inputs for electronic devices Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Christopher M. Werner, Samuel Bruce Weiss 2018-08-14 $85,234,000
10037006 Compressible seal for rotatable and translatable input mechanisms 2018-07-31 $152,402,000
10019097 Force-detecting input structure Erik G. de Jong, Fletcher R. Rothkopf 2018-07-10 $58,779,000
10018966 Cover member for an input mechanism of an electronic device Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Maegan K. Spencer 2018-07-10 $58,779,000
9973972 Network bandwidth sharing for mobile devices Fletcher R. Rothkopf 2018-05-15 $62,463,000
9971305 Tactile switch for an electronic device John B. Morrell, Duncan Robert Kerr, Camille Moussette 2018-05-15 $62,463,000
9952558 Compressible seal for rotatable and translatable input mechanisms 2018-04-24 $65,456,000
9941581 Antenna window and antenna pattern for electronic devices and methods of manufacturing the same Christopher D. Prest, Lucy E. Browning, Stephen Brian Lynch, Eric S. Laakmann, Paul Nangeroni 2018-04-10 $65,044,000
D813239 Crown for electronic device Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou +19 more 2018-03-20
9886006 Rotary input mechanism for an electronic device Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Christopher M. Werner, John B. Morrell, Camille Moussette, Duncan Robert Kerr +1 more 2018-02-06 $65,660,000