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Christopher L. Flick — 27 Patents

Apple: 23 patents #1,411 of 18,612Top 8%
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
Christopher L. Flick has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in June 2023. Christopher L. Flick ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Christopher L. Flick in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11686405 Gas valve with emergency shutoff and mechanical timer Jih-Ching Lai 2023-06-27
10972753 Versatile tile coding for multi-view video streaming Fanyi Duanmu, Eduardo Asbun, Xiaosong Zhou, Jun Xin, Hsi-Jung Wu +3 more 2021-04-06 $275,793,000
10937460 Media files and protocols supporting runtime dependent tracks Kevin Calhoun 2021-03-02 $266,805,000
10733146 Inline keyed metadata 2020-08-04 $153,818,000
10520108 Gas valve with emergency shutoff and mechanical timer Jih-Ching Lai 2019-12-31
10277927 Movie package file format Michel Rynderman 2019-04-30 $88,584,000
10070174 Movie package file format to persist HLS onto disk Courtney Kennedy, David L. Biderman, John Su, Jordan B. Schneider, Michel Rynderman +1 more 2018-09-04 $96,510,000
10021434 Movie package file format Michel Rynderman 2018-07-10 $58,779,000
9507777 Temporal metadata track David W. Singer 2016-11-29 $57,183,000
9501495 Location metadata in a media file David W. Singer, John Samuel Bushell, Thal-Wey Then 2016-11-22 $87,317,000
9116988 Temporal metadata track David W. Singer 2015-08-25 $80,070,000
9009118 Temporal metadata track David W. Singer 2015-04-14 $82,451,000
8843586 Playlists for real-time or near real-time streaming Roger Pantos, David L. Biderman, William B. May, Jr., John Samuel Bushell, John Kevin Calhoun 2014-09-23 $108,724,000
8694670 Time synchronization of multiple time-based data streams with independent clocks James D. Batson, John Samuel Bushell, Gregory R. Chapman 2014-04-08 $54,530,000
8434028 System and method for integrating media objects Xiaochun Nie 2013-04-30 $74,511,000
8316147 Time synchronization of multiple time-based data streams with independent clocks James D. Batson, John Samuel Bushell, Gregory R. Chapman 2012-11-20 $172,777,000
8126312 Use of multiple related timelines John Samuel Bushell 2012-02-28 $111,348,000
7996427 Unified system for accessing metadata in disparate formats Thai W. Then 2011-08-09 $65,800,000
7954057 Object movie exporter Xiaochun Nie 2011-05-31 $132,326,000
7912349 Validating frame dependency information John Samuel Bushell 2011-03-22 $67,922,000
7797633 Streaming to media device during acquisition with random access David L. Biderman, Rainer Brodersen, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Eric Taylor Seymour, Thomas Michael Madden 2010-09-14 $110,383,000
7765315 Time synchronization of multiple time-based data streams with independent clocks James D. Batson, John Samuel Bushell, Gregory R. Chapman 2010-07-27 $99,783,000
7631277 System and method for integrating media objects Xiaochun Nie 2009-12-08 $168,165,000
7236528 System and method for processing time-based media Xiaochun Nie, J. Peter Hoddie 2007-06-26 $250,834,000
6941516 Object movie exporter Xiaochun Nie 2005-09-06 $383,609,000