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Joe Howard — 76 Patents

Apple: 76 patents #300 of 18,612Top 2%
San Jose, CA: #456 of 32,062 inventorsTop 2%
California: #3,799 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #24,882 of 4,157,543Top 1%
76 Patents All Time
Joe Howard has been granted 76 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in June 2025. Joe Howard ranks #24,882 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.60%). Patent records list Joe Howard in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 2018.peak 132014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 4 patents20162017: 10 patents2018: 13 patents20182019: 9 patents2020: 7 patents20202021: 5 patents2022: 9 patents20222023: 6 patents2024: 6 patents20242025: 5 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 76 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12342050 Channel bar user interface Gregory N. Christie, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, William M. Bachman, Imran Chaudhri, Jeffrey L. Robbin +6 more 2025-06-24
12321570 Device, method, and graphical user interface for navigating media content Henrique Penha, Graham R. Clarke, Jeffrey L. Robbin, William M. Bachman, Benjamin W. Keighran +5 more 2025-06-03
12301948 Devices and method for providing remote control hints on a display Gregory N. Christie, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, William M. Bachman, Imran Chaudhri, Jeffrey L. Robbin +6 more 2025-05-13
12229475 Multi-user TV user interface Gregory N. Christie, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, William M. Bachman, Imran Chaudhri, Jeffrey L. Robbin +6 more 2025-02-18
12225253 Agnostic media delivery system Gregory N. Christie, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, William M. Bachman, Imran Chaudhri, Jeffrey L. Robbin +6 more 2025-02-11
12177527 TV side bar user interface Gregory N. Christie, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, William M. Bachman, Imran Chaudhri, Jeffrey L. Robbin +6 more 2024-12-24 $240,476,000
12149779 Advertisement user interface Gregory N. Christie, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, William M. Bachman, Imran Chaudhri, Jeffrey L. Robbin +6 more 2024-11-19 $210,988,000
12105942 Input device and user interface interactions Marcel van Os, William M. Bachman, Elbert D. Chen, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Joshua K. McGlinn +8 more 2024-10-01 $316,155,000
12093525 Character recognition on a computing device Ryan S. Dixon, Joshua K. McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, William M. Bachman +4 more 2024-09-17 $230,032,000
12086186 Interactive interface for navigating in a user interface associated with a series of content Marcel van Os, Joshua MC GLINN, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, William M. Bachman +4 more 2024-09-10 $233,602,000
11960707 Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for moving a current focus using a touch-sensitive remote control Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Nicole M. Wells, Justin T. Voss, Blake R. Seely, Matthew D. Ricketson +9 more 2024-04-16 $181,044,000
11822858 Multi-user TV user interface Gregory N. Christie, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, William M. Bachman, Imran Chaudhri, Jeffrey L. Robbin +6 more 2023-11-21 $128,924,000
11816303 Device, method, and graphical user interface for navigating media content Henrique Penha, Graham R. Clarke, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Jeffrey L. Robbin, William M. Bachman +9 more 2023-11-14 $188,958,000
11782580 Application menu for video system Elbert D. Chen, Joshua K. McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, Marcel van Os +4 more 2023-10-10 $182,572,000
11635888 Character recognition on a computing device Ryan S. Dixon, Joshua MC GLINN, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, William M. Bachman +4 more 2023-04-25 $295,598,000
11635876 Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for moving a current focus using a touch-sensitive remote control Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Nicole M. Wells, Justin T. Voss, Blake R. Seely, Matthew D. Ricketson +9 more 2023-04-25 $295,598,000
11550447 Application menu for video system Elbert D. Chen, Joshua K. McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, Marcel van Os +4 more 2023-01-10 $215,259,000
11520467 Input device and user interface interactions Marcel van Os, William M. Bachman, Elbert D. Chen, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Joshua K. McGlinn +8 more 2022-12-06 $256,671,000
11461397 Column interface for navigating in a user interface Marcel van Os, Joshua K. McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, William M. Bachman +4 more 2022-10-04 $219,253,000
11317161 TV side bar user interface Gregory N. Christie, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, William M. Bachman, Imran Chaudhri, Jeffrey L. Robbin +6 more 2022-04-26 $199,478,000
11297392 Devices and method for providing remote control hints on a display Gregory N. Christie, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, William M. Bachman, Imran Chaudhri, Jeffrey L. Robbin +6 more 2022-04-05 $244,930,000
11294539 Music now playing user interface Taylor G. Carrigan, Joshua K. McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, William M. Bachman +7 more 2022-04-05 $244,930,000
11290762 Agnostic media delivery system Gregory N. Christie, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, William M. Bachman, Imran Chaudhri, Jeffrey L. Robbin +6 more 2022-03-29 $247,204,000
11262890 Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for moving a current focus using a touch-sensitive remote control Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Nicole M. Wells, Justin T. Voss, Blake R. Seely, Matthew D. Ricketson +9 more 2022-03-01 $259,568,000
11245967 TV side bar user interface Gregory N. Christie, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, William M. Bachman, Imran Chaudhri, Jeffrey L. Robbin +6 more 2022-02-08 $447,997,000