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Brian D. Howard — 27 Patents

Apple: 27 patents #1,158 of 18,612Top 7%
Portola Valley, CA: #88 of 621 inventorsTop 15%
California: #19,967 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Brian D. Howard has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in September 2020. Brian D. Howard ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Brian D. Howard in Portola Valley, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2004.peak 41992: 1 patents19921993: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19941997: 2 patents1998: 1 patents19981999: 3 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 4 patents20042008: 2 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 1 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10775863 Methods and apparatuses for controlling the temperature of a data processing system Michael Culbert, Keith Cox, Josh P. de Cesare, Richard C. Williams, Dave Robbins Falkenburg +2 more 2020-09-15 $162,043,000
9317090 Methods and apparatuses for operating a data processing system Michael Culbert, Keith Cox, Josh P. de Cesare, Richard C. Williams, Dave Robbins Falkenburg +2 more 2016-04-19 $45,541,000
9043627 Methods and apparatuses for controlling the temperature of a data processing system Michael Culbert, Keith Cox, Josh P. de Cesare, Richard C. Williams, Dave Robbins Falkenburg +2 more 2015-05-26 $89,191,000
8681159 Method and apparatus for switching between graphics sources Michael Culbert, David G. Conroy, William C. Athas 2014-03-25 $67,584,000
8448000 Methods and apparatuses for operating a data processing system Michael Culbert, Keith Cox, Josh P. de Cesare, Richard C. Williams, Dave Robbins Falkenburg +2 more 2013-05-21 $123,748,000
8237386 Methods and apparatuses for operating a data processing system Michael Culbert, Keith Cox, Josh P. de Cesare, Richard C. Williams, Dave Robbins Falkenburg +2 more 2012-08-07 $90,079,000
8151231 Analyzing integrated circuit operations Robert L. Bailey 2012-04-03 $221,850,000
7698579 Multiplexed graphics architecture for graphics power management Ian C. Hendry 2010-04-13 $94,442,000
7634587 I/O descriptor cache for bus mastering I/O controllers David Ferguson, Robert L. Bailey, Lesley B. Wynne 2009-12-15 $137,107,000
7577930 Method and apparatus for analyzing integrated circuit operations Robert L. Bailey 2009-08-18 $433,384,000
7451332 Methods and apparatuses for controlling the temperature of a data processing system Michael Culbert, Keith Cox, Josh P. de Cesare, Richard C. Williams, Dave Robbins Falkenburg +2 more 2008-11-11 $288,137,000
7337258 Dynamically allocating devices to buses Robert L. Bailey, Lesley B. Wynne 2008-02-26 $341,219,000
6820209 Power managed graphics controller Michael Culbert 2004-11-16 $63,313,000
6711691 Power management for computer systems Michael Culbert 2004-03-23 $20,139,000
RE38471 Method and apparatus for display image rotation Robert L. Bailey 2004-03-23
6708278 Apparatus and method for awakening bus circuitry from a low power state Michael Culbert, Robert L. Bailey 2004-03-16 $14,692,000
6654898 Stable clock generation internal to a functional integrated circuit chip Robert L. Bailey, Michael Culbert 2003-11-25 $27,613,000
6460143 Apparatus and method for awakening bus circuitry from a low power state Michael Culbert, Robert L. Bailey 2002-10-01 $26,210,000
RE36381 Portable computer and docking station having an electromechanical docking/undocking mechanism and a plurality of cooperatively interacting failsafe mechanisms Dennis J. Boyle, Matt Herron, David C. Blakely, Mary Johnson, James J. Halicho 1999-11-09
5933154 Multi-panel video display control addressing of interleaved frame buffers via CPU address conversion Robert L. Bailey 1999-08-03 $19,135,000
5929868 Method and apparatus for computer display memory management Robert L. Bailey 1999-07-27 $10,369,000
5854641 Method and apparatus for display image rotation Robert L. Bailey 1998-12-29 $38,304,000
5651126 Method and apparatus for reducing transitions on computer signal lines Robert L. Bailey, Michael D. Johnson 1997-07-22 $7,493,000
5625386 Method and apparatus for interleaving display buffers Robert L. Bailey 1997-04-29 $3,706,000
5323291 Portable computer and docking station having an electromechanical docking/undocking mechanism and a plurality of cooperatively interacting failsafe mechanisms Dennis J. Boyle, Matt Herron, David C. Blakely, Mary Johnson, James J. Halicho 1994-06-21 $18,823,000