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Daniel L. Kovacs — 13 Patents

Apple: 12 patents #2,744 of 18,612Top 15%
AIAibrain: 1 patents #7 of 16Top 45%
Santa Clara, CA: #1,346 of 9,301 inventorsTop 15%
California: #47,433 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Daniel L. Kovacs has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2022 and the most recent in August 2025. Daniel L. Kovacs ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Daniel L. Kovacs in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2022 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2023.peak 52022: 2 patents20222023: 5 patents20232024: 3 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12394146 Methods and systems for composing and executing a scene Mark Drummond, Shaun D. Budhram, Edward S. Ahn, Behrooz Mahasseni, Aashi Manglik +7 more 2025-08-19
12322048 Connecting spatially distinct settings Michael J. Gutensohn, Siva Chandra Mouli Sivapurapu, Mark Drummond 2025-06-03
12249016 Influencing actions of agents 2025-03-11
12182327 Method and device for debugging program execution and content playback Michael J. Gutensohn, Payal Jotwani, Mark Drummond 2024-12-31 $239,269,000
12169902 Methods and systems for composing and executing a scene Mark Drummond, Shaun D. Budhram, Edward S. Ahn, Behrooz Mahasseni, Aashi Manglik +7 more 2024-12-17 $588,520,000
11868526 Method and device for debugging program execution and content playback Michael J. Gutensohn, Payal Jotwani, Mark Drummond 2024-01-09 $219,732,000
11804012 Method and device for navigation mesh exploration Payal Jotwani, Dan Feng 2023-10-31 $267,879,000
11763143 Adding deep learning based AI control Jinhwal Lee, TaeJun Kang, Sichang Yang, Hankyul Kim, Hong Shik Shinn 2023-09-19
11710276 Method and device for improved motion planning Siva Chandra Mouli Sivapurapu, Payal Jotwani, Noah Gamboa 2023-07-25 $302,876,000
11670028 Influencing actions of agents 2023-06-06 $190,322,000
11645797 Motion control for an object 2023-05-09 $324,008,000
11532139 Method and device for improved pathfinding Payal Jotwani 2022-12-20 $242,970,000
11379471 Hierarchical datastore for an agent 2022-07-05 $213,612,000