Benjamin E. Nielsen — 12 Patents at Apple

Benjamin E. Nielsen has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in October 2025. Benjamin E. Nielsen ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Benjamin E. Nielsen in Columbus, MN, US.

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Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12455681	Device, method, and graphical user interface for adjusting a display property of an affordance over changing background content	Wan Si Wan, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Bartosz Ciechanowski	2025-10-28
12086398	Device, method, and graphical user interface for adjusting a display property of an affordance over changing background content	Wan Si Wan, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Bartosz Ciechanowski	2024-09-10	$233,602,000
11574066	Methods and system for implementing a secure lock screen	Matthew E. Shepherd, Joshua H. Shaffer, Chendi Zhang, Daniel O. Schimpf, Cameron Zwarich	2023-02-07	$350,871,000
11119642	Device, method, and graphical user interface for adjusting a display property of an affordance over changing background content	Wan Si Wan, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Bartosz Ciechanowski	2021-09-14	$182,808,000
10970083	Log in/log out process for EDU mode	Jonathan E. Drummond, Anthony R. Griffin, Andrew B. Cato, Daniel T. Kurtz, David Steinberg	2021-04-06	$275,793,000
10691321	Device, method, and graphical user interface for adjusting a display property of an affordance over changing background content	Wan Si Wan, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Bartosz Ciechanowski	2020-06-23	$111,648,000
10474350	Devices and methods for processing touch inputs over multiple regions of a touch-sensitive surface	Brittany D. Paine, Jonathan E. Drummond	2019-11-12	$112,045,000
10223540	Methods and system for implementing a secure lock screen	Matthew E. Shepherd, Joshua H. Shaffer, Chendi Zhang, Daniel O. Schimpf, Cameron Zwarich	2019-03-05	$88,700,000
10192055	Log in/log out process for EDU mode	Jonathan E. Drummond, Anthony R. Griffin, Andrew B. Cato, Daniel T. Kurtz, David Steinberg	2019-01-29	$91,346,000
D823090	Tool handle	David J. Ruha	2018-07-17
9900275	Tracking object across processes	Jonathan E. Drummond	2018-02-20	$98,367,000
9846535	Devices and methods for processing touch inputs over multiple regions of a touch-sensitive surface	Brittany D. Paine, Jonathan E. Drummond	2017-12-19	$103,286,000

Benjamin E. Nielsen — 12 Patents

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