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Dave Cerf — 15 Patents

Apple: 15 patents #2,200 of 18,612Top 15%
San Francisco, CA: #2,863 of 26,999 inventorsTop 15%
California: #40,789 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Dave Cerf has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in September 2023. Dave Cerf ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Dave Cerf in San Francisco, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11747972 Media-editing application with novel editing tools Ken Matsuda, Matthew D. Diephouse, Vincenzo De Marco, Jordan P. McCommons, Louis LaSalle 2023-09-05 $187,157,000
11157154 Media-editing application with novel editing tools Ken Matsuda, Matthew D. Diephouse, Vincenzo De Marco, Jordan P. McCommons, Louis LaSalle 2021-10-26 $273,635,000
10324605 Media-editing application with novel editing tools Ken Matsuda, Matthew D. Diephouse, Vincenzo De Marco, Jordan P. McCommons, Louis LaSalle 2019-06-18 $140,625,000
9600164 Media-editing application with anchored timeline Ken Matsuda, Itrat U. Khan, Matthew D. Diephouse, Brian Meaney, Vincenzo De Marco +2 more 2017-03-21 $48,833,000
9564173 Media editing application for auditioning different types of media clips Anne Swenson, Giovanni Agnoli, Enrique Rodriguez, Charles Lyons, Brian Meaney +1 more 2017-02-07 $94,786,000
9323438 Media-editing application with live dragging and live editing capabilities Itrat U. Khan, Ken Matsuda, Giovanni Agnoli, Brian Meaney, Colleen Pendergast +2 more 2016-04-26 $73,816,000
8910046 Media-editing application with anchored timeline Ken Matsuda, Itrat U. Khan, Matthew D. Diephouse, Brian Meaney, Vincenzo De Marco +2 more 2014-12-09 $110,699,000
8875025 Media-editing application with media clips grouping capabilities Randy Ubillos, Ken Matsuda, Giovanni Agnoli, Colleen Pendergast, Itrat U. Khan +3 more 2014-10-28 $89,956,000
8819557 Media-editing application with a free-form space for organizing or compositing media clips Ken Matsuda 2014-08-26 $72,159,000
8769421 Graphical user interface for a media-editing application with a segmented timeline Brian Meaney, Melissa Breglio, Mike Stern, Jerremy Holland, Colleen Pendergast +3 more 2014-07-01 $75,855,000
8701007 Edit visualizer for modifying and evaluating uncommitted media content Brian Meaney, Colleen Pendergast, Michaelle Stikich 2014-04-15 $81,052,000
8631326 Segmented timeline for a media-editing application Brian Meaney, Melissa Breglio, Mike Stern, Jerremy Holland, Colleen Pendergast +3 more 2014-01-14 $110,472,000
8555169 Media clip auditioning used to evaluate uncommitted media content Colleen Pendergast, Michaelle Stikich, Tom Langmacher, Anne Swenson, Gregory Niles +4 more 2013-10-08 $62,809,000
8549404 Auditioning tools for a media editing application Anne Swenson, Giovanni Agnoli, Enrique Rodriguez, Charles Lyons, Brian Meaney +1 more 2013-10-01 $90,690,000
8533598 Media editing with a segmented timeline Brian Meaney, Melissa Breglio, Mike Stern, Jerremy Holland, Colleen Pendergast +3 more 2013-09-10 $96,051,000