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Edward T. Schmidt — 36 Patents

Apple: 36 patents #829 of 18,612Top 5%
Burlingame, CA: #46 of 999 inventorsTop 5%
California: #13,468 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
Edward T. Schmidt has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in November 2025. Edward T. Schmidt ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Edward T. Schmidt in Burlingame, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12483611 Alarms for a system of smart media playback devices Thomas Alsina, David C. Graham, Andrew Wadycki, Joel M. Lopes Da Silva, Richard M. Powell +1 more 2025-11-25
12396045 Pairing devices by proxy Deepak Iyer, Thomas Alsina, Elena Leyfman, David P. Saracino, Astrid Yi +5 more 2025-08-19
12135823 User interface-based restriction on content access Betim Deva, Mufaddal Y. Khumri, Ying-Chun Chen, Jason P. Ketterman, Zhiyuan Zhao 2024-11-05 $371,466,000
12034994 Remotely controlling playback devices Deepak Iyer, Thomas Alsina, Elena Leyfman, David P. Saracino, Astrid Yi +6 more 2024-07-09 $250,204,000
11995116 Multi-user content queue Cody D. Jorgensen, Jason P. Ketterman, Michael Gachet 2024-05-28 $205,493,000
11974338 Pairing devices by proxy Deepak Iyer, Thomas Alsina, Elena Leyfman, David P. Saracino, Astrid Yi +5 more 2024-04-30 $239,224,000
11949725 Alarms for a system of smart media playback devices Thomas Alsina, David C. Graham, Andrew Wadycki, Joel M. Lopes Da Silva, Richard M. Powell +1 more 2024-04-02 $162,541,000
11716193 Managing device usage Christopher G. Skogen, Jean-Pierre Ciudad, Julien Freudiger, Joao Pedro De Almeida Forjaz De Lacerda, Cyrus Daboo +5 more 2023-08-01 $216,194,000
11509726 Encapsulating and synchronizing state interactions between devices Thomas Alsina, Charles Magahern, Cody D. Jorgensen, Jason P. Ketterman, Nicholas J. Paulson +7 more 2022-11-22 $281,216,000
11303686 Alarms for a system of smart media playback devices Thomas Alsina, David C. Graham, Andrew Wadycki, Joel M. Lopes Da Silva, Richard M. Powell +1 more 2022-04-12 $201,337,000
11297369 Remotely controlling playback devices Deepak Iyer, Thomas Alsina, Elena Leyfman, David P. Saracino, Astrid Yi +6 more 2022-04-05 $244,930,000
11005986 Managing device usage Christopher G. Skogen, Jean-Pierre Ciudad, Julien Freudiger, Joao Pedro De Almeida Forjaz De Lacerda, Cyrus Daboo +5 more 2021-05-11 $296,431,000
10993274 Pairing devices by proxy Deepak Iyer, Thomas Alsina, Elena Leyfman, David P. Saracino, Astrid Yi +5 more 2021-04-27 $300,345,000
10805370 Alarms for a system of smart media playback devices Thomas Alsina, David C. Graham, Andrew Wadycki, Joel M. Lopes Da Silva, Richard M. Powell +1 more 2020-10-13 $241,153,000
10805683 Priming media applications and presenting primed media application data Thomas Alsina, Charles Magahern, Gregory R. Chapman, Ronald K. Huang 2020-10-13 $241,153,000
10783929 Managing playback groups Elena Leyfman, Thomas Alsina, Deepak Iyer, David P. Saracino, Astrid Yi +6 more 2020-09-22 $196,593,000
10609208 Managing device usage Christopher G. Skogen, Jean-Pierre Ciudad, Julien Freudiger, Joao Pedro De Almeida Forjaz De Lacerda, Cyrus Daboo +5 more 2020-03-31 $77,902,000
10447748 Sharing media information between applications on client devices Aurie Bendahan, Nicholas J. Paulson, Jason P. Ketterman, Charles Magahern 2019-10-15 $104,842,000
10382522 Generating a dynamic user interface representing an arbitrary content provider back-end Charles Magahern, Jason P. Ketterman, Nicholas J. Paulson, Thomas Alsina 2019-08-13 $108,006,000
10331399 Smart audio playback when connecting to an audio output system Thomas Alsina, Andre M. J. Boule, Craig M. Federighi, Gregory R. Chapman, Deepak Iyer +3 more 2019-06-25 $85,297,000
10318114 Playlist-only media items Thomas Alsina, Taylor G. Carrigan, Christopher J. Sanders, Cody D. Jorgensen, Arvind S. Shenoy +4 more 2019-06-11 $92,962,000
10264319 Priming media applications and presenting primed media application data Charles Magahern, Gregory R. Chapman, Ronald K. Huang, Thomas Alsina 2019-04-16 $92,511,000
10205989 Optimized storage of media items Thomas Alsina, Cody D. Jorgensen, James Callender, Matthew J. Cielak, Taylor G. Carrigan 2019-02-12 $93,643,000
10019444 Universal identifier Nicholas J. Paulson, Nathan de Vries, Marc E. Weinberger 2018-07-10 $58,779,000
9953033 Wireless content synchronization Marc E. Weinberger, James Callender, Nathan de Vries 2018-04-24 $65,456,000