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Hanchi Chen — 15 Patents

Apple: 14 patents #2,362 of 18,612Top 15%
AUAustralian National University: 1 patents #86 of 242Top 40%
Cupertino, CA: #1,106 of 6,989 inventorsTop 20%
California: #40,789 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Hanchi Chen has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2018 and the most recent in May 2025. Hanchi Chen ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Hanchi Chen in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2018 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2022.peak 52018: 1 patents20182021: 1 patents20212022: 5 patents20222023: 2 patents20232024: 3 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12302057 Adaptive virtual microphone for earbuds Martin Kuster, Tom-Davy W. Saux, Victoria Chiu 2025-05-13
12244990 Acoustic vent and protective membrane Thanh P. Hua, Priyanka Venkatesh, Jarrett B. Lagler, Jason J. LeBlanc 2025-03-04
12219315 Acoustic detection of in-ear headphone fit Esge B. Andersen, Andrew E. Greenwood, Tom-Davy W. Saux, Baptiste P. Paquier, Raghavendra S. Prabhu 2025-02-04
12133038 Acoustic vent and protective membrane Thanh P. Hua, Priyanka Venkatesh, Jarrett B. Lagler, Jason J. LeBlanc 2024-10-29 $278,906,000
12112738 Headphone with multiple reference microphones ANC and transparency Sarthak Khanal, Yang Lu, Vladan Bajic, Esge B. Andersen 2024-10-08 $261,024,000
12035094 Ear tip for portable wireless listening device Benjamin A. Cousins, Robert Chun, Priyanka Venkatesh, Thanh P. Hua, Jarrett B. Lagler 2024-07-09 $250,204,000
11741939 Headphone with multiple reference microphones ANC and transparency Sarthak Khanal, Yang Lu, Vladan Bajic, Esge B. Andersen 2023-08-29 $179,387,000
11722809 Acoustic detection of in-ear headphone fit Esge B. Andersen, Andrew E. Greenwood, Tom-Davy W. Saux, Baptiste P. Paquier, Raghavendra S. Prabhu 2023-08-08 $174,735,000
11470413 Acoustic detection of in-ear headphone fit Esge B. Andersen, Andrew E. Greenwood, Tom-Davy W. Saux, Baptiste P. Paquier, Raghavendra S. Prabhu 2022-10-11 $189,022,000
11445290 Feedback acoustic noise cancellation tuning Scott C. Grinker, Vladan Bajic, Brian Clark, Tom-Davy W. Saux 2022-09-13 $228,578,000
11437012 Headphone with multiple reference microphones ANC and transparency Sarthak Khanal, Yang Lu, Vladan Bajic, Esge B. Andersen 2022-09-06 $222,166,000
11335316 Headphone with multiple reference microphones and oversight of ANC and transparency Sarthak Khanal, Yang Lu, Vladan Bajic, Esge B. Andersen 2022-05-17 $199,476,000
11250833 Method and system for detecting and mitigating audio howl in headsets Vladan Bajic, Vasu Iyengar, Yang Lu, Navneet Gandhi, Thomas M. Jensen 2022-02-15 $337,983,000
11166099 Headphone acoustic noise cancellation and speaker protection or dynamic user experience processing Tom-Davy W. Saux, Brian Clark, Victoria Chiu, Vladan Bajic, Dana Massie +2 more 2021-11-02 $262,399,000
9949033 Planar sensor array Pallage Thushara Abhayapala, Wen Zhang 2018-04-17