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Chris Blumenberg — 29 Patents

Apple: 29 patents #1,075 of 18,612Top 6%
San Francisco, CA: #1,117 of 26,999 inventorsTop 5%
California: #18,137 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
Chris Blumenberg has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in January 2025. Chris Blumenberg ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list Chris Blumenberg in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2011.peak 52009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents2011: 5 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 5 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212023: 1 patents2024: 1 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12189913 Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying structured electronic documents Scott Forstall, Andre M. J. Boule, Imran Chaudhri, Gregory N. Christie, Stephen O. Lemay +2 more 2025-01-07
11921969 Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying structured electronic documents Scott Forstall, Andre M. J. Boule, Imran Chaudhri, Gregory N. Christie, Stephen O. Lemay +2 more 2024-03-05 $135,445,000
11592952 Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying structured electronic documents Scott Forstall, Andre M. J. Boule, Imran Chaudhri, Gregory N. Christie, Stephen O. Lemay +2 more 2023-02-28 $171,651,000
11106326 Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying structured electronic documents Scott Forstall, Andre M. J. Boule, Imran Chaudhri, Gregory N. Christie, Stephen O. Lemay +2 more 2021-08-31 $281,034,000
10656778 Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying structured electronic documents Scott Forstall, Andre M. J. Boule, Imran Chaudhri, Gregory N. Christie, Stephen O. Lemay +2 more 2020-05-19 $120,639,000
10228815 Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying structured electronic documents Scott Forstall, Andre M. J. Boule, Imran Chaudhri, Gregory N. Christie, Stephen O. Lemay +2 more 2019-03-12 $142,807,000
9952759 Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for customizing display of content category icons Steven P. Jobs, Scott Forstall, Greg Christie, Stephen O. Lemay, Scott Herz +19 more 2018-04-24 $65,456,000
9836211 Device, method, and graphical user interface for selection of views in a three-dimensional map based on gesture inputs 2017-12-05 $74,042,000
9690446 Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying structured electronic documents Scott Forstall, Gregory N. Christie, Stephen O. Lemay, Imran Chaudhri, Richard Williamson +2 more 2017-06-27 $77,923,000
9335924 Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for customizing display of content category icons Steven P. Jobs, Scott Forstall, Greg Christie, Stephen O. Lemay, Scott Herz +19 more 2016-05-10 $45,935,000
9208698 Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating a three-dimensional map view based on a device orientation Billy Chen, Patrick S. Piemonte 2015-12-08 $55,372,000
9026951 Device, method, and graphical user interface for selection of views in a three-dimensional map based on gesture inputs 2015-05-05 $97,516,000
8788954 Web-clip widgets on a portable multifunction device Stephen O. Lemay, Richard Williamson, Scott Forstall, Timothy P. Omernick 2014-07-22 $84,305,000
8669950 Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying structured electronic documents Scott Forstall, Greg Christie, Stephen O. Lemay, Imran Chaudhri, Richard Williamson +2 more 2014-03-11 $126,548,000
8607167 Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for providing maps and directions Michael Matas, Andre M. J. Boule, Richard Williamson 2013-12-10 $112,403,000
8564544 Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for customizing display of content category icons Steven P. Jobs, Scott Forstall, Greg Christie, Stephen O. Lemay, Scott Herz +19 more 2013-10-22 $104,740,000
8547353 Method, system, and graphical user interface for displaying hyperlink information on a web page Francisco Ryan Tolmasky, Richard Williamson 2013-10-01 $90,690,000
8464182 Device, method, and graphical user interface for providing maps, directions, and location-based information Kimon Tsinteris, Richard Williamson, Ryan Staake 2013-06-11 $85,401,000
8451232 Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for interacting with user input elements in displayed content Francisco Ryan Tolmasky, Richard Williamson, Patricia J. Coleman, Corbin Robert Dunn, Stephen O. Lemay +1 more 2013-05-28 $91,700,000
8302033 Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for providing maps, directions, and location-based information Michael Matas, Andre M. J. Boule, Stephen O. Lemay, Richard Williamson 2012-10-30
8214768 Method, system, and graphical user interface for viewing multiple application windows Andre M. J. Boule, Richard Williamson, Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel van Os 2012-07-03 $211,685,000
8171432 Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying and selecting application options Michael Matas, Stephen O. Lemay, Richard Williamson 2012-05-01 $99,110,000
7978176 Portrait-landscape rotation heuristics for a portable multifunction device Scott Forstall 2011-07-12 $116,106,000
7966578 Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for translating displayed content Francisco Ryan Tolmasky, Richard Williamson, Patrick L. Coffman 2011-06-21 $148,668,000
7889185 Method, system, and graphical user interface for activating hyperlinks Richard Williamson 2011-02-15 $155,653,000