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Eric L. Chien — 16 Patents

Apple: 16 patents #2,077 of 18,612Top 15%
Sunnyvale, CA: #1,693 of 14,302 inventorsTop 15%
California: #37,952 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Eric L. Chien has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2019 and the most recent in December 2025. Eric L. Chien ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Eric L. Chien in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2019 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2021.peak 42019: 2 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 4 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 2 patents20232024: 3 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12507131 Multi-device communication management Joe S. Abuan, Ian J. Baird, Xiaosong ZHOU, Christopher M. Garrido, Dazhong Zhang +5 more 2025-12-23
12432083 Camera format selection Karthick Santhanam, Christopher M. Garrido, Kyle William Horn, Ian J. Baird, Qian Sun +1 more 2025-09-30
11991566 Multi-device communication management Joe S. Abuan, Ian J. Baird, Xiaosong Zhou, Christopher M. Garrido, Dazhong Zhang +5 more 2024-05-21 $215,899,000
11949529 Camera format selection Karthick Santhanam, Christopher M. Garrido, Kyle William Horn, Ian J. Baird, Qian Sun +1 more 2024-04-02 $162,541,000
11889229 Modifying video streams with supplemental content for video conferencing Christopher M. Garrido, Austin W. Shyu, Ming Jin, Yan Yang, Ian J. Baird +1 more 2024-01-30 $160,707,000
11736426 Modifying images with supplemental content for messaging Christopher M. Garrido, Austin W. Shyu, Ming Jin, Yan Yang, Ian J. Baird +1 more 2023-08-22 $159,607,000
11606574 Efficient coding of source video sequences partitioned into tiles Dazhong Zhang, Peikang Song, Beibei Wang, Giribalan Gopalan, Albert E. Keinath +12 more 2023-03-14 $318,065,000
11410700 Video playback buffer adjustment Gurtej Singh G. Chandok, Christopher M. Garrido, Ming Jin, Karthick Santhanam, Brian T. Toombs +4 more 2022-08-09 $373,812,000
11336600 Modifying images with supplemental content for messaging Christopher M. Garrido, Austin W. Shyu, Ming Jin, Yan Yang, Ian J. Baird +1 more 2022-05-17 $199,476,000
11012389 Modifying images with supplemental content for messaging Christopher M. Garrido, Austin W. Shyu, Ming Jin, Yan Yang, Ian J. Baird +1 more 2021-05-18 $223,963,000
10999767 Multi-device communication management Joe S. Abuan, Ian J. Baird, Xiaosong Zhou, Christopher M. Garrido, Dazhong Zhang +5 more 2021-05-04 $316,122,000
10931725 Multiway audio-video conferencing Christopher M. Garrido, Thomas Devanneaux, Yan Yang, Ming Jin, Vu H. Chiem +8 more 2021-02-23 $266,795,000
10911992 Multi-device communication management Joe S. Abuan, Ian J. Baird, Xiaosong Zhou, Christopher M. Garrido, Dazhong Zhang +5 more 2021-02-02 $228,514,000
10681310 Modifying video streams with supplemental content for video conferencing Christopher M. Garrido, Austin W. Shyu, Ming Jin, Yan Yang, Ian J. Baird +1 more 2020-06-09 $148,132,000
10523820 High-quality audio/visual conferencing Christopher M. Garrido, Wenhui Xu, Xiaoxiao Zheng, Spencer E. Lewson, Keith W. Rauenbuehler +4 more 2019-12-31 $109,024,000
10277829 Video capture in low-light conditions Christopher M. Garrido, David L. Biderman, Gurtej Singh G. Chandok, Kartik P. Sathappan, Komei Harada +5 more 2019-04-30 $88,584,000