Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
EB

Eric W. Bates — 21 Patents

Apple: 14 patents #2,362 of 18,612Top 15%
GTGeneral Cable Technologies: 3 patents #25 of 112Top 25%
SCSouthwire Company: 2 patents #143 of 341Top 45%
EGEssex Group: 1 patents #77 of 141Top 55%
PSPrysmian S.P.A.: 1 patents #131 of 277Top 50%
Sunnyvale, CA: #1,210 of 14,302 inventorsTop 9%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Eric W. Bates has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in October 2025. Eric W. Bates ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Eric W. Bates in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D1096757 Display for an electronic device Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft +24 more 2025-10-07
12439514 Electronic device having conductive contact soldered to printed circuit Peter A. Dvorak, Ana Papio Toda, Yiren Wang, Hanjie Xu, Yuan Tao +3 more 2025-10-07
D1049117 Housing module for an electronic device Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft +21 more 2024-10-29
D1025075 Display for an electronic device Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft +20 more 2024-04-30
11889647 Display panel bend reinforcement Izhar Zahoor Ahmed, John J. Baker, Bulong Wu, Daniel W. Jarvis, Douglas G. Fournier +15 more 2024-01-30 $160,707,000
11837383 Cables with improved coverings to reduce shrinkback and methods of forming the same Elliot Byunghwa Lee, Timothy John Clancy 2023-12-05
11637919 Handheld electronic device John J. Baker, Lucy E. Browning, Kodiak D. Burke, Benjamin Shane Bustle, Trent Canales +22 more 2023-04-25 $295,598,000
11522983 Handheld electronic device Xiao Ying Zhao, Luman Zhang, Christopher R. Xydis, Michael W. Firka, Benjamin J. Kallman +5 more 2022-12-06 $256,671,000
D947849 Housing module for an electronic device Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft +21 more 2022-04-05
10616387 Portable electronic device Bryan D. Keen, Sina Bigdeli, Sawyer I. Cohen, William A. Counts, Lucy E. Browning +2 more 2020-04-07 $84,122,000
10028397 Electronic device with liquid-resistant SIM tray and audio module Xiao Ying Zhao, Timothy S. Lui, Tyler B. Cater, Rasamy Phouthavong, Scott A. Myers +15 more 2018-07-17 $111,105,000
9974180 Component protection structures for electronic devices Shayan Malek, David A. Pakula, Gregory N. Stephens, Sawyer I. Cohen, Scott A. Myers +1 more 2018-05-15 $62,463,000
9967375 Liquid-resistant coating on an electronic device Xiao Ying Zhao, Timothy S. Lui, Tyler B. Cater, Rasamy Phouthavong, Scott A. Myers +15 more 2018-05-08 $70,060,000
9589703 Data cables having an intumescent tape Srinivas Siripurapu, Scott M. Brown, Sean William Culligan, Stephen A. Thwaites, Jianmin Liu +1 more 2017-03-07
9538662 3D flex soldering Richard Besen, Gregory N. Stephens 2017-01-03 $61,757,000
D758961 Battery for electronic device Shota Aoyagi, Richard Besen, Richard P. Howarth, Scott A. Myers, David A. Pakula +1 more 2016-06-14
9115274 Fire and water resistant cable cover 2015-08-25
9087629 Fire and water resistant cable 2015-07-21
7485810 Non-lead jacket for non-metallic sheathed electrical cable Thomas R. Jurczak 2009-02-03
7129415 Non-lead jacket for non-metallic sheathed electrical cable Thomas R. Jurczak 2006-10-31
5304740 Fusible link wire David A. Bozell 1994-04-19 $94,000