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James C. Spohrer — 10 Patents

Apple: 9 patents #3,521 of 18,612Top 20%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
Santa Clara, CA: #1,777 of 9,301 inventorsTop 20%
California: #61,378 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
James C. Spohrer has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in October 2013. James C. Spohrer ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list James C. Spohrer in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1997.peak 21995: 1 patents19951996: 1 patents19961997: 2 patents19971998: 2 patents19981999: 1 patents19992001: 1 patents20012010: 1 patents20102013: 1 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8560462 Management of usage costs of a resource Arnon Amir, Myron D. Flickner, Douglas Warren McDavid 2013-10-15 $3,582,000
7721264 Method and apparatus for storing and replaying creation history of multimedia software or other software content Alan R. Peterson 2010-05-18 $81,461,000
6226785 Method and apparatus for storing and replaying creation history of multimedia software or other software content Alan R. Peterson 2001-05-01 $81,973,000
5864844 System and method for enhancing a user interface with a computer based training tool Arthur James, Catherine Anne Abbott, Michael A. Arent, Gregory J. Czora, James M. Laffey +4 more 1999-01-26 $16,213,000
5801687 Authoring tool comprising nested state machines for use in a computer system Alan R. Peterson 1998-09-01 $4,683,000
5721845 Topically organized interface with realistic dialogue Arthur James, Catherine Anne Abbott, Michael A. Arent, Gregory J. Czora, James M. Laffey +4 more 1998-02-24 $11,969,000
5652714 Method and apparatus for capturing transient events in a multimedia product using an authoring tool on a computer system Alan R. Peterson 1997-07-29 $6,322,000
5600774 Graphical interface for interacting constrained actors 1997-02-04 $2,396,000
5566295 Extensible simulation system and graphical programming method Allen Cypher, David C. Smith 1996-10-15 $7,908,000
5450540 Graphical interface for interacting constrained actors Tyde B. Richards, David Vronay, Adam M. Chipkin, Ruben Kleiman, Mark Leslie Miller 1995-09-12 $14,822,000