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David S. Herman — 7 Patents

Apple: 6 patents #4,834 of 18,612Top 30%
WEWestinghouse Electric: 1 patents #4,724 of 5,212Top 95%
San Francisco, CA: #6,302 of 26,999 inventorsTop 25%
California: #83,669 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
David S. Herman has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in November 2025. David S. Herman ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list David S. Herman in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2025.peak 21980: 1 patents19802017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents20182020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents20212025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D1102204 Display stand Richard P. Howarth, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Indhu V. Solayappan, Po Huang +3 more 2025-11-18
12201227 Product display stand with reduced movement Eric Weijia Wang, Gregory R. Ritter, Joshua Adams, Olivia M. Ching, Priya K. Nambiar +3 more 2025-01-21
11024449 Multipole elastomeric magnet with magnetic-field shunt Shravan Bharadwaj, Rafael L. Dionello 2021-06-01 $199,177,000
10861629 Solid state deposition of magnetizable materials Simon R. Lancaster-Larocque, Shravan Bharadwaj 2020-12-08 $251,566,000
9997286 Magnetically actuated restraining mechanisms 2018-06-12 $93,251,000
9553625 Modular functional band links for wearable devices Motohide Hatanaka, Douglas J. Weber, Brian Shadle, Alex M. Lee, Patrick Wieler +1 more 2017-01-24 $88,784,000
4183134 High yield processing for silicon-on-sapphire CMOS integrated circuits Harry G. Oehler, James R. Cricchi 1980-01-15 $2,175,000