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Daniel S. Venolia — 19 Patents

Apple: 16 patents #2,077 of 18,612Top 15%
Microsoft: 3 patents #13,486 of 40,388Top 35%
Soquel, CA: #17 of 187 inventorsTop 10%
California: #31,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Daniel S. Venolia has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in January 2009. Daniel S. Venolia ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Daniel S. Venolia in Soquel, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2009Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1994.peak 21991: 1 patents19911992: 1 patents1993: 1 patents19931994: 2 patents1995: 2 patents19951997: 1 patents1999: 1 patents19992000: 2 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 1 patents20042007: 1 patents2008: 2 patents20082009: 1 patents2009

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7477268 Zooming controller 2009-01-13 $128,131,000
7372473 Zooming controller 2008-05-13 $739,791,000
7333120 Zooming controller 2008-02-19 $227,948,000
7292986 Method and apparatus for displaying speech recognition progress Scott D. Quinn 2007-11-06 $20,387,000
6778195 Zooming controller 2004-08-17 $23,441,000
6654733 Fuzzy keyboard Joshua T. Goodman, Xuedong Huang 2003-11-25 $162,149,000
6573844 Predictive keyboard Joshua T. Goodman, Xuedong Huang, Hsiao-Wuen Hon 2003-06-03 $160,092,000
6366303 Zooming controller 2002-04-02 $34,606,000
6072489 Method and apparatus for providing translucent images on a computer display Michael L. Gough, Joseph J. MacDougald, Thomas S. Gilley, Greg M. Robbins, Daniel J. Hansen, Jr. +1 more 2000-06-06 $53,023,000
6061062 Zooming controller 2000-05-09 $77,882,000
5949432 Method and apparatus for providing translucent images on a computer display Michael L. Gough, Joseph J. MacDougald, Thomas S. Gilley, Greg M. Robbins, Daniel J. Hansen, Jr. +1 more 1999-09-07 $31,881,000
5638501 Method and apparatus for displaying an overlay image Michael L. Gough, Thomas S. Gilley, Greg M. Robbins, Daniel J. Hansen, Jr., Abhay Oswal +1 more 1997-06-10 $23,986,000
5469194 Apparatus and method for providing different input device orientations of a computer system Michael Clark 1995-11-21 $8,955,000
5463722 Automatic alignment of objects in two-dimensional and three-dimensional display space using an alignment field gradient 1995-10-31 $20,787,000
5341293 User interface system having programmable user interface elements Laurie J. Vertelney, Thomas D. Erickson, S. Joy Mountford, John A. Thompson-Rohrlich, Gitta Salomon +3 more 1994-08-23 $15,447,000
5313230 Three degree of freedom graphic object controller Shinpei Ishikawa 1994-05-17 $23,436,000
5202828 User interface system having programmable user interface elements Laurie J. Vertelney, Thomas D. Erickson, S. Joy Mountford, John Thompson-Rohrlich, Gitta Salomon +3 more 1993-04-13 $20,295,000
5146212 Manipulatable orientation for a translatable graphic object 1992-09-08 $46,647,000
5050961 Polarized mask stereoscopic display including tiling masks with complementary transparent regions 1991-09-24 $32,886,000