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James C. Wu — 14 Patents

Apple: 7 patents #4,315 of 18,612Top 25%
TSMC: 4 patents #4,745 of 12,232Top 40%
Intel: 2 patents #13,316 of 30,777Top 45%
EAE.I. Du Pont De Nemours And: 1 patents #7,551 of 12,129Top 65%
Redwood City, CA: #722 of 5,061 inventorsTop 15%
California: #43,920 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
James C. Wu has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in May 2025. James C. Wu ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list James C. Wu in Redwood City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2000.peak 31984: 1 patents19842000: 3 patents20002002: 1 patents20022006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents20072022: 1 patents20222023: 3 patents20232024: 2 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12301027 Magnetic alignment structures with variable field strength Karl Ruben F. Larsson, Aaron A. Oro, Timothy J. Rasmussen, Christopher S. Graham, Eric S. Jol +3 more 2025-05-13
12184322 Case with magnetic alignment for portable electronic device Sean Michael Cole, Nishant R. JAYANT, Adriano De Fusco, Aaron A. Oro, Yang Zhou +6 more 2024-12-31 $239,269,000
12126193 Accessories with magnetic alignment components and NFC Karl Ruben F. Larsson, Aaron A. Oro, Timothy J. Rasmussen, Christopher S. Graham, Eric S. Jol +3 more 2024-10-22 $240,844,000
11839279 Magnetically attachable wallet Timothy C. Wulff, Yang Zhou, Tao Pan, Leon Zhang, Geng Luo 2023-12-12 $221,665,000
11722016 Accessory insert modules with magnetic alignment components Eric S. Jol, Karl Ruben F. Larsson, Aaron A. Oro, Timothy J. Rasmussen, Christopher S. Graham +4 more 2023-08-08 $174,735,000
11710988 Magnetic alignment systems with NFC for electronic devices Karl Ruben F. Larsson, Aaron A. Oro, Timothy J. Rasmussen, Christopher S. Graham, Eric S. Jol +3 more 2023-07-25 $302,876,000
11342800 Magnetic alignment systems with proximity detection for electronic devices Aaron A. Oro, Karl Ruben F. Larsson, Timothy J. Rasmussen, Christopher S. Graham, Eric S. Jol +1 more 2022-05-24 $182,335,000
7257803 Method for constructing an integrated circuit device having fixed and programmable logic portions and programmable logic architecture for use therewith Steven J. E. Wilton, Kimberly Bozman, Noha Kafafi 2007-08-14 $5,438,000
6983442 Method for constructing an integrated circuit device having fixed and programmable logic portions and programmable logic architecture for use therewith Steven J. E. Wilton, Kimberly Bozman, Noha Kafafi 2006-01-03 $22,320,000
6365325 Aperture width reduction method for forming a patterned photoresist layer Min-Hsiung Chiang, Huan-Just Lin, Cheng-Tung Lin 2002-04-02 $10,099,000
6159786 Well-controlled CMP process for DRAM technology Min-Hsiung Chiang, Jenn Ming Huang 2000-12-12 $5,513,000
6100116 Method to form a protected metal fuse Yu-Hua Lee, Jenn Ming Huang, Cheng-Yeh Shih, Min-Hsiung Chiang 2000-08-08
6013550 Method to define a crown shaped storage node structure, and an underlying conductive plug structure, for a dynamic random access memory cell Yu-Hua Lee 2000-01-11 $7,079,000
4480051 Activated iron hydrogenation catalyst — 1984-10-30 $3,861,000

Frequent Collaborators

Aaron A. Oro6 shared
Timothy J. Rasmussen5 shared
Demetrios B. Karanikos5 shared
Karl Ruben F. Larsson5 shared
Christopher S. Graham5 shared
Eric S. Jol5 shared

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