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Eric L. Benson — 13 Patents

Apple: 12 patents #2,744 of 18,612Top 15%
Burlingame, CA: #149 of 999 inventorsTop 15%
California: #47,433 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Eric L. Benson has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in May 2025. Eric L. Benson ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Eric L. Benson in Burlingame, CA, US.

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Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12317631 Displays with camera window openings Bryan W. Posner, Christopher L. Boitnott, Dinesh C. Mathew, Jun Qi, Robert Y. Cao +1 more 2025-05-27
12197078 Display modules with direct-lit backlight units Meizi Jiao, Joshua A. Spechler, Jie Xiang, Zhenyue Luo, Chungjae Lee +22 more 2025-01-14
11874559 Display modules with direct-lit backlight units Meizi Jiao, Joshua A. Spechler, Jie Xiang, Zhenyue Luo, Chungjae Lee +22 more 2024-01-16 $257,290,000
11719978 Direct-lit backlight units with light-emitting diodes Zhenyue Luo, Meizi Jiao, Morteza Amoorezaei, Ling Han, Chungjae Lee +7 more 2023-08-08 $174,735,000
11715810 Displays with camera window openings Bryan W. Posner, Christopher L. Boitnott, Dinesh C. Mathew, Jun Qi, Robert Y. Cao +1 more 2023-08-01 $216,194,000
11513392 Direct-lit backlight units with optical films Zhenyue Luo, Morteza Amoorezaei, Qingbing Wang, Chenhua You, Meizi Jiao +6 more 2022-11-29 $175,082,000
11513383 Electronic device display assembly Lauren M. Farrell, Adam T. Garelli, Brian P. Graves, David P. Tarkington, Erik A. Zweigle +5 more 2022-11-29 $175,082,000
11003208 Display having optical films with bent alignment structures Keith J. Hendren, Adam T. Garelli, Bryan W. Posner, Dinesh C. Mathew, Mengyang Liang +2 more 2021-05-11 $296,431,000
10969628 Backlight units with support posts and cavity height monitoring Erik A. Zweigle, Yu P. Sun, Ziruo Hong, Victor H. Yin, Rong Liu +3 more 2021-04-06 $275,793,000
9804639 Hinged portable electronic device with display circuitry located in base Bryan W. Posner, Dinesh C. Mathew, Jason N. Gomez, Jun Qi, Robert Y. Cao +3 more 2017-10-31 $71,010,000
9806219 Displays with camera window openings Bryan W. Posner, Christopher L. Boitnott, Dinesh C. Mathew, Jun Qi, Robert Y. Cao +1 more 2017-10-31 $71,010,000
9664955 Method to design the integrated full coverage LCD module cover glass Bryan W. Posner, Jun Qi, Victor H. Yin, Christiaan A. Ligtenberg, Dinesh C. Mathew +1 more 2017-05-30 $83,886,000
9480155 Flexible cables in electronic devices with moving components Bryan W. Posner, Christiaan A. Ligtenberg, Dinesh C. Mathew, Robert Y. Cao, Valerie Chang +1 more 2016-10-25 $74,258,000