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David N. Chen — 8 Patents

Apple: 8 patents #3,866 of 18,612Top 25%
San Jose, CA: #7,707 of 32,062 inventorsTop 25%
California: #74,834 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
David N. Chen has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in April 2021. David N. Chen ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list David N. Chen in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2019.peak 22014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents20182019: 2 patents20192021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10990250 Organized timeline Colleen Pendergast, Brian Meaney, David E. Conry, Itrat U. Khan, Jack S. Yi +11 more 2021-04-27 $300,345,000
10402062 Organized timeline Colleen Pendergast, Brian Meaney, David E. Conry, Itrat U. Khan, Jack S. Yi +11 more 2019-09-03 $96,808,000
10372306 Organized timeline Colleen Pendergast, Brian Meaney, David E. Conry, Itrat U. Khan, Jack S. Yi +11 more 2019-08-06 $92,166,000
9997196 Retiming media presentations Xiaohuan C. Wang, Giovanni Agnoli, Vijay Sundaram, Brian Meaney, Mike Stern +3 more 2018-06-12 $93,251,000
9536541 Content aware audio ducking David E. Conry 2017-01-03 $61,757,000
9300268 Content aware audio ducking David E. Conry 2016-03-29 $63,298,000
9172343 Volume adjustment based on user-defined curve Kelly B. Jacklin 2015-10-27 $161,603,000
8839110 Rate conform operation for a media-editing application Xiaohuan C. Wang, Giovanni Agnoli, Shaun M. Poole, Vijay Sundaram, Eric Graves +2 more 2014-09-16 $52,432,000