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Eli Cochran — 7 Patents

Apple: 7 patents #4,315 of 18,612Top 25%
Menlo Park, CA: #1,077 of 3,774 inventorsTop 30%
California: #83,669 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Eli Cochran has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in January 1999. Eli Cochran ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Eli Cochran in Menlo Park, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5859638 Method and apparatus for displaying and scrolling data in a window-based graphic user interface Patricia J. Coleman, James E. Palmer, Matthew Justin Powers, Jeffrey A. Herman, John Powers, III 1999-01-12 $6,901,000
5828374 Method and apparatus for selecting characters along a scroll bar with a slider Patricia J. Coleman, James E. Palmer, Matthew Justin Powers, Jeffrey A. Herman, John Powers, III 1998-10-27 $7,395,000
5825355 Method and apparatus for providing a help based window system using multiple access methods James E. Palmer, Patricia J. Coleman, Jeffrey A. Herman, John Powers, III 1998-10-20 $8,430,000
5602996 Method and apparatus for determining window order when one of multiple displayed windows is selected John Powers, III, James E. Palmer, Patricia J. Coleman, Jeffrey A. Herman 1997-02-11 $4,684,000
5600779 Method and apparatus for providing visual cues in a graphic user interface James E. Palmer, John Powers, III, Patricia J. Coleman, Gregory Scott Brewer, Jeffrey A. Herman 1997-02-04 $2,396,000
5488685 Method and apparatus for providing visual cues in a graphic user interface James E. Palmer, John Powers, III, Patricia J. Coleman, Gregory Scott Brewer, Jeffrey A. Herman 1996-01-30 $33,332,000
5469540 Method and apparatus for generating and displaying multiple simultaneously-active windows John Powers, III, James E. Palmer, Patricia J. Coleman, Jeffrey A. Herman 1995-11-21 $8,955,000