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Brian Sander — 27 Patents

Apple: 19 patents #1,739 of 18,612Top 10%
TRTropian: 4 patents #5 of 22Top 25%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 3 patents #7,735 of 21,551Top 40%
San Jose, CA: #2,317 of 32,062 inventorsTop 8%
California: #19,967 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Brian Sander has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in June 2017. Brian Sander ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Brian Sander in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9680980 Electronic device accessory Wendell B. Sander, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Timothy M. Johnson, Brian Conner +1 more 2017-06-13 $53,900,000
9656621 System and method for sensor module power management Robert B. Curtis, Saket R. Vora, Joseph Fisher, Bryson Gardner, Tyler Mincey +4 more 2017-05-23
9237401 Electronic devices with adjustable bias impedances and adjustable bias voltages for accessories Yash Modi, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Jahan Minoo, Wendell B. Sander 2016-01-12 $83,071,000
9020162 Electronic device and external equipment with digital noise cancellation and digital audio path Wendell B. Sander, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, David Tupman, Barry Corlett 2015-04-28 $79,667,000
8995689 Electronic device circuitry for communicating with accessories Wendell B. Sander, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Timothy M. Johnson, Brian Conner +1 more 2015-03-31 $96,962,000
8983093 Electronic device circuitry for communicating with accessories Wendell B. Sander, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Timothy M. Johnson, Brian Conner +1 more 2015-03-17 $91,673,000
8976976 Accessory adapter with user input interface Wendell B. Sander, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Timothy M. Johnson, Brian Conner +1 more 2015-03-10 $87,927,000
8891790 Methods for using an accessory to communicate with an electronic device Wendell B. Sander, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Timothy M. Johnson, Brian Conner +1 more 2014-11-18 $78,848,000
8812883 Systems and methods for providing device-to-device handshaking through a power supply signal Doug M. Farrar, Lawrence F. Heyl 2014-08-19 $70,788,000
8600080 Methods for communicating with electronic device accessories Wendell B. Sander, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Timothy M. Johnson, Brian Conner +1 more 2013-12-03 $83,608,000
8457157 Digital communications system with variable-bandwidth traffic channels Wendell B. Sander, Barry Corlett, David Tupman, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Andrew P. Bright +1 more 2013-06-04 $97,267,000
8332664 Systems and methods for providing device-to-device handshaking through a power supply signal Doug M. Farrar, Lawrence F. Heyl 2012-12-11 $83,814,000
8254592 Electronic device and external equipment with configurable audio path circuitry Wendell B. Sander, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar 2012-08-28 $72,244,000
8223986 Electronic device and external equipment with digital noise cancellation and digital audio path Wendell B. Sander, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, David Tupman, Barry Corlett 2012-07-17 $130,366,000
8130790 Digital communications system with variable-bandwidth traffic channels Wendell B. Sander, Barry Corlett, David Tupman, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Andrew P. Bright +1 more 2012-03-06 $109,256,000
7869608 Electronic device accessory Wendell B. Sander, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Timothy M. Johnson, Brian Conner +1 more 2011-01-11 $158,132,000
7623667 Electronic device accessory with ultrasonic tone generator Wendell B. Sander, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Timothy M. Johnson, Brian Conner +1 more 2009-11-24 $120,154,000
7424083 PLL noise smoothing using dual-modulus interleaving Earl W. McCune, Jr. 2008-09-09 $438,000
7227919 Data sampler for digital frequency/phase determination 2007-06-05 $366,000
7158494 Multi-mode communications transmitter Wendell B. Sander, Stephan V. Schell 2007-01-02
7027545 Data sampler for digital frequency/phase determination 2006-04-11
7012984 PLL noise smoothing using dual-modulus interleaving Earl W. McCune, Jr. 2006-03-14
6140882 Phase lock loop enabling smooth loop bandwidth switching 2000-10-31
6094101 Direct digital frequency synthesis enabling spur elimination Wendell B. Sander 2000-07-25
5151985 Disk drive controller Wendell B. Sander 1992-09-29 $13,518,000