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David Robert Black — 26 Patents

Apple: 22 patents #1,475 of 18,612Top 8%
LILivescribe: 2 patents #5 of 27Top 20%
APAplle: 1 patents #1 of 16Top 7%
San Jose, CA: #2,428 of 32,062 inventorsTop 8%
California: #20,975 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
David Robert Black has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in March 2025. David Robert Black ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list David Robert Black in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12260880 Media editing using storyboard templates Daniel J. Wiersema, Teresa Finch Perera, Jennifer L. Nassef Anderson, Ivan Pinzon, Nathalie Castel +5 more 2025-03-25
11722764 Creative camera Marcel van Os, Jessica Aboukasm, Jean-Francois Albouze, Jae Woo Chang, Robert M. Chinn +11 more 2023-08-08 $174,735,000
11643828 Support apparatus John Alexander Black 2023-05-09
11178356 Media message creation with automatic titling Andrew L. Harding, Joseph Weil, James Brasure, Joash S. Berkeley, Katherine K. Ernst +6 more 2021-11-16 $241,630,000
10560656 Media message creation with automatic titling Joseph Weil, Andrew L. Harding, James Brasure, Joash S. Berkeley, Katherine K. Ernst +6 more 2020-02-11 $152,172,000
10375313 Creative camera Marcel van Os, Jessica Aboukasm, Robert M. Chinn, Gregory Dudey, Katherine K. Ernst +11 more 2019-08-06 $92,166,000
10270983 Creative camera Marcel van Os, Jessica Aboukasm, Robert M. Chinn, Gregory Dudey, Katherine K. Ernst +5 more 2019-04-23 $89,186,000
9544531 Media map for capture of content from random access devices Nils Angquist 2017-01-10 $61,338,000
9335838 Tagging of written notes captured by a smart pen Brett Reed Halle 2016-05-10
9195697 Correlation of written notes to digital content Brett Reed Halle, Andrew J. Van Schaack 2015-11-24
8886016 Propagating metadata associated with digital video 2014-11-11 $85,451,000
8810728 Method and apparatus for synchronizing audio and video streams 2014-08-19 $70,788,000
8811802 Insertion and usage of metadata in digital video 2014-08-19
8787732 Exporting metadata associated with digital video 2014-07-22 $84,305,000
8763035 Media map for capture of content from random access devices Nils Angquist 2014-06-24 $67,710,000
8667389 Transforming a hierarchical data structure according to requirements specified in a transformation template 2014-03-04 $76,732,000
8666222 Video encoding 2014-03-04 $76,732,000
8558953 Method and apparatus for synchronizing audio and video streams 2013-10-15 $84,697,000
8413184 Media map for capture of content from random access devices Nils Angquist 2013-04-02 $85,701,000
8265450 Capturing and inserting closed captioning data in digital video Marshall B. Johnson 2012-09-11 $141,185,000
8135261 Insertion and usage of metadata in digital video 2012-03-13 $160,947,000
8064752 Video encoding 2011-11-22 $107,768,000
8041186 Propagating metadata associated with digital video 2011-10-18 $83,217,000
7821574 Method and apparatus for synchronizing audio and video streams 2010-10-26 $148,494,000
7640497 Transforming a hierarchical data structure according to requirements specified in a transformation template 2009-12-29 $145,138,000