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2020
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Apple
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James E. Pedder
JP
James E. Pedder
— 7 Patents in 2020
Apple
:
6
patents
#441
of
5,223
Top 9%
Overall
(2020):
#18,962
of
565,922
Top 4%
7
Patents 2020
Issued Patents
2020
Showing
1–7
of
7
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
Approx Value ⓘ
10852553
Electronic device with a tunable lens
Igor Stamenov
,
Cheng-Te Chen
,
Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov
,
Graham B. Myhre
,
Victoria C. Chan
+5 more
2020-12-01
$185,955,000
10775890
Electronic device having a piezoelectric body for friction haptics
Xiaonan Wen
2020-09-15
$162,043,000
10685940
Light emitting structure to aid LED light extraction
Jonathan S. Steckel
,
Jean-Jacques P. Drolet
,
Roland van Gelder
,
Kelly McGroddy
,
Ion Bita
+4 more
2020-06-16
10591368
Force sensor with strain relief
John Stephen Smith
2020-03-17
$72,009,000
10585482
Electronic device having a hybrid conductive coating for electrostatic haptics
Xiaonan Wen
2020-03-10
$142,673,000
10546796
Backplane structure and process for microdriver and micro LED
Hsin-Hua Hu
,
Jaein Choi
,
Ion Bita
,
Hairong Tang
,
Chin-Wei Hsu
+6 more
2020-01-28
$144,266,000
10535296
Display panel redundancy schemes
Kapil V. Sakariya
,
Tore Nauta
,
Hopil Bae
,
Henry C. Jen
,
Sunggu Kang
+6 more
2020-01-14
$151,925,000
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