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Eric A. Knopf — 35 Patents

Apple: 25 patents #1,273 of 18,612Top 7%
HDHeidelberg Druckmaschinen: 4 patents #332 of 1,510Top 25%
IBM: 3 patents #26,335 of 70,183Top 40%
ALAnsaldo Energia Ip Uk Limited: 1 patents #54 of 154Top 40%
Mountain View, CA: #482 of 11,022 inventorsTop 5%
California: #14,008 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #96,288 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time
Eric A. Knopf has been granted 35 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in November 2024. Eric A. Knopf ranks #96,288 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.3%). Patent records list Eric A. Knopf in Mountain View, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D1051122 Electronic device Bartley K. Andre, Matthew P. Casebolt, Houtan R. Farahani, Ron A. Hopkinson, Jay S. Nigen +4 more 2024-11-12
11071228 Computing workstation with accessible in a rack environment Daniel D. Hershey, Christoph M. Pistor, Bartley K. Andre, Richard D. Kosoglow, Michael D. McBroom +7 more 2021-07-20 $287,877,000
D901484 Electronic device Bartley K. Andre, Matthew P. Casebolt, Houtan R. Farahani, Ron A. Hopkinson, Jay S. Nigen +4 more 2020-11-10
10741344 Keyboard for electronic device Matthew P. Casebolt, Craig C. Leong, Robert Y. Cao, Bradford J. Zercoe, Dinesh C. Mathew +4 more 2020-08-11 $147,060,000
10673035 Battery structure and integration Ron A. Hopkinson, Brett W. Degner, Robert Sean Murphy, Christiaan A. Ligtenberg, Matthew P. Casebolt +1 more 2020-06-02 $124,146,000
10375853 Electronic device with cooling fan Anthony Joseph Aiello, Jonathan L. Berk, Karen Y. Cheng, Jesse T. Dybenko, Trevor J. Edmonds +4 more 2019-08-06 $92,166,000
10083805 Keyboard for electronic device Matthew P. Casebolt, Craig C. Leong, Robert Y. Cao, Bradford J. Zercoe, Dinesh C. Mathew +3 more 2018-09-25 $112,379,000
10083806 Keyboard for electronic device Matthew P. Casebolt, Craig C. Leong, Robert Y. Cao, Bradford J. Zercoe, Dinesh C. Mathew +4 more 2018-09-25 $112,379,000
9970328 Method for barring a rotor of a turbomachine and barring apparatus for conducting such method Axel Haerms, Felix Staehli, Marc Rauch 2018-05-15
9904333 SSD (solid state drive) related features of a portable computer Bartley K. Andre, Matthew P. Casebolt, Houtan R. Farahani, William F. Leggett, Gavin J. Reid +2 more 2018-02-27 $145,349,000
9735528 Cableless battery integration Ron A. Hopkinson, Eugene Kim, Peter M. Arnold, Jim C. Hwang, Matthew P. Casebolt 2017-08-15 $97,242,000
9705115 Battery structure and integration Ron A. Hopkinson, Brett W. Degner, Robert Sean Murphy, Christiaan A. Ligtenberg, Matthew P. Casebolt +1 more 2017-07-11 $63,067,000
9474156 Interposer connectors with alignment features Greg Fosnes, Aaron N. Miletich, Chris Ligtenberg, Jay Anastas, Erik J. Shahoian +1 more 2016-10-18 $70,285,000
D768566 Battery Bartley K. Andre, Matthew P. Casebolt, Ron A. Hopkinson, Mikael Silvanto, Eric J. Weirshauser 2016-10-11
9408328 Solid-state drive with passive heat transfer Jay S. Nigen, Ron A. Hopkinson, Derek Yap, William F. Leggett, Richard H. Tan 2016-08-02 $75,320,000
9132562 Small form factor desktop computer Chiew-Siang Goh, Houtan R. Farahani, Ricardo A. Mariano, Joseph B. Moak, Matthew Theobald 2015-09-15 $55,353,000
9019699 Mass storage device with elastomeric material and related portable computing device and method John M. Brock, Robert L. Coish, Christiaan A. Ligtenberg, Ron A. Hopkinson 2015-04-28 $79,667,000
8953321 Cooling arrangement for small form factor desktop computer David P. Tarkinton, Matthew Dean Rohrbach 2015-02-10
8897001 Devices and methods for attaching components to computer housings David P. Tarkington, Houtan R. Farahani 2014-11-25
8820687 Flat panel display including a hinge assembly John P. Ternus, Sean S. Corbin, Brett W. Degner, Danielle Deluliis, Shin Nishibori +5 more 2014-09-02 $81,973,000
8493727 Removable hard drive in a small form factor desk top computer David P. Tarkington, Houtan R. Farahani 2013-07-23 $65,903,000
8451598 Small form factor desk top computer Chiew-Siang Goh, Joseph B. Moak, Matthew Theobald, Houtan R. Farahani, Ricardo A. Mariano 2013-05-28 $91,700,000
8411434 Small form factor desk top computer Chiew-Siang Goh, Joseph B. Moak, Matthew Theobald, Houtan R. Farahani, Ricardo A. Mariano 2013-04-02 $85,701,000
8387928 Flat panel display including a hinge assembly John P. Ternus, Sean S. Corbin, Brett W. Degner, Danielle De Iuliis, Shin Nishibori +5 more 2013-03-05 $73,541,000
8375856 Method for compensating for an oscillation in a printing press Bernhard Buck, Matthias Noll, Stefan Schreiber, Malte Seidler, Detlef Strunk 2013-02-19