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James A. Howard — 28 Patents

Apple: 22 patents #1,475 of 18,612Top 8%
Mountain View, CA: #672 of 11,022 inventorsTop 7%
California: #19,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
James A. Howard has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in September 2024. James A. Howard ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list James A. Howard in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2015.peak 82005: 1 patents20052007: 1 patents20072013: 1 patents20132015: 8 patents20152016: 5 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 6 patents20182020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents20212024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12083869 Adjustable window 2024-09-10
12002161 Methods and apparatus for building a three-dimensional model from multiple data sets Christopher Blumenberg 2024-06-04 $189,142,000
11120485 Application purchasing William Bedford Turner, Christopher Blumenberg, Richard Williamson 2021-09-14 $182,808,000
10752095 Window 2020-08-25
10671264 Image display and interaction using a mobile device Jonathan R. Dascola 2020-06-02 $124,146,000
10163260 Methods and apparatus for building a three-dimensional model from multiple data sets Christopher Blumenberg 2018-12-25
10099854 Trashcan system and related methods of use Lori D. Montag 2018-10-16
10095394 Image display and interaction using a mobile device Jonathan R. Dascola 2018-10-09 $111,660,000
10073590 Reduced size user interface Jonathan R. Dascola, Christopher P. Foss, Lawrence Y. Yang, Alan C. Dye, David C. Graham +6 more 2018-09-11 $138,338,000
9922354 In application purchasing William Bedford Turner, Christopher Blumenberg, Richard Williamson 2018-03-20 $80,950,000
9860436 Changing display images of a camera timer remote control Eric S. Lee, Hugh W. Johnson, James C. Dovey, Gregory R. Chapman, James D. Batson +4 more 2018-01-02 $85,152,000
9742977 Camera remote control Eric S. Lee, Hugh W. Johnson, James C. Dovey, Gregory R. Chapman, James D. Batson +4 more 2017-08-22 $68,357,000
9453734 Smart loading of map tiles Seejo K. Pylappan, Bradford A. Moore, Christopher Blumenberg 2016-09-27 $72,288,000
9451035 Push-based location update Richard Williamson, Christopher Blumenberg, Seejo K. Pylappan 2016-09-20 $55,056,000
9418478 Methods and apparatus for building a three-dimensional model from multiple data sets Christopher Blumenberg 2016-08-16 $66,545,000
9415184 System and method to optimize sleep conditions Jeff Julkowski, Timothy Ziaja 2016-08-16
9395193 Scalable and efficient cutting of map tiles Guillaume A. Carbonneau, Vincent Dumont, Anuj Dhamija, Denis Laprise, Okan Arikan 2016-07-19 $68,975,000
9224218 System and method for loading and rendering curved features in a map Aroon Pahwa, Christopher Blumenberg, Jeffrey Paul McCurdy Hultquist, Michael Schuster 2015-12-29 $60,508,000
9111309 Caching multiple views corresponding to multiple aspect ratios William Bedford Turner, Christopher Blumenberg, Richard Williamson 2015-08-18 $84,581,000
9110749 Digital content bundle William Bedford Turner, Tony F. Kinnis, Kenley Sun 2015-08-18 $84,581,000
9111380 Rendering maps Patrick S. Piemonte, Christopher D. Moore, Aroon Pahwa 2015-08-18 $84,581,000
9070314 Method, system and apparatus for rendering a map according to texture masks Aroon Pahwa, Jeffrey Paul McCurdy Hultquist, Christopher Blumenberg 2015-06-30 $70,639,000
9064341 Method, system and apparatus for rendering a map according to hybrid map data Jeffrey Paul McCurdy Hultquist, Aroon Pahwa, Christopher Blumenberg 2015-06-23 $74,734,000
9041736 Method, system and apparatus for rendering a map according to a stylesheet Jeffrey Paul McCurdy Hultquist, Robert R. Cook, Christopher Blumenberg 2015-05-26 $89,191,000
8930438 Push-based location update Richard Williamson, Christopher Blumenberg, Seejo K. Pylappan 2015-01-06 $123,182,000