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Eric S. Brown — 11 Patents

Apple: 9 patents #3,521 of 18,612Top 20%
UTUniversity of Technology Office Of Technology Transfer: 1 patents #44 of 180Top 25%
Cupertino, CA: #1,483 of 6,989 inventorsTop 25%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Eric S. Brown has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in December 2025. Eric S. Brown ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Eric S. Brown in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2019.peak 31998: 1 patents19982015: 1 patents20152017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents20182019: 3 patents20192021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12489830 App-independent resource downloads Jonathan J. Andrews 2025-12-02
11662996 System and method for downgrading applications Christopher S. Linn, Eric Olaf Carlson, Cindy M. Barrett, Jonathan M. Grynspan, Donald M. Firlik +2 more 2023-05-30 $227,111,000
11314498 System and method for downgrading applications Christopher S. Linn, Eric Olaf Carlson, Cindy M. Barrett, Jonathan M. Grynspan, Donald M. Firlik +2 more 2022-04-26 $199,478,000
11016748 Revision locking Daniel B. Pollack, Gregory Novick, Paul William Chinn, David C. Donley, Tyler D. Hawkins +1 more 2021-05-25 $283,400,000
10437580 Software updating methods and systems Edward Eric Thomas 2019-10-08 $92,329,000
10423572 Performing live updates to file system volumes Eric B. Tamura 2019-09-24 $183,092,000
10235152 System and method for downgrading applications Christopher S. Linn, Eric Olaf Carlson, Cindy M. Barrett, Jonathan M. Grynspan, Donald M. Firlik +2 more 2019-03-19 $127,162,000
10095500 Revision locking Daniel B. Pollack, Gregory Novick, Paul William Chinn, David C. Donley, Tyler D. Hawkins +1 more 2018-10-09 $111,660,000
9853929 Service compatibility check for messages Daniel B. Pollack, Gregory Novick, Paul William Chinn, David C. Donley, Tyler D. Hawkins +1 more 2017-12-26 $58,651,000
9099846 Plug and play control panel module with integrally socketed circuit board A. Todd McKay, Charles P. Bransford, Florin Boca, Ling Luo, Michael Stephen Williams 2015-08-04
5800571 Locking mechanism for voluntary closing prosthetic prehensor Lawrence Carlson, Daniel Frey 1998-09-01

Frequent Collaborators

David C. Donley3 shared
Cameron Stuart Birse3 shared
Paul William Chinn3 shared
Tyler D. Hawkins3 shared
Daniel B. Pollack3 shared
Cindy M. Barrett3 shared

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