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John Benjamin Filson — 142 Patents

Apple: 85 patents #245 of 18,612Top 2%
Google: 56 patents #143 of 22,993Top 1%
GOGoolge: 1 patents #1 of 29Top 4%
Mountain View, CA: #21 of 11,022 inventorsTop 1%
California: #1,116 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #6,988 of 4,157,543Top 1%
142 Patents All Time
John Benjamin Filson has been granted 142 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in August 2024. John Benjamin Filson ranks #6,988 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.17%). Patent records list John Benjamin Filson in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 18 patents in 2012.peak 182006: 1 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 4 patents20082009: 10 patents2010: 11 patents20102011: 11 patents2012: 18 patents20122013: 12 patents2014: 11 patents20142015: 17 patents2016: 13 patents20162017: 11 patents2018: 12 patents20182019: 5 patents2021: 2 patents20212023: 1 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 142 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12056178 Media playback queuing for playback management Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Kyle Yeates 2024-08-06 $268,361,000
11627412 Portable electronic device control Pinida Jan Moolsintong, Emery A. Sanford 2023-04-11 $369,350,000
11182420 Media playback queuing for playback management Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Kyle Yeates 2021-11-23 $239,501,000
10943444 Smart home device providing intuitive illumination-based status signaling Jeffrey A. Boyd, James B. Simister, Adam Mittleman, Fred Bould, David Sloo +3 more 2021-03-09 $109,767,000
10438460 Smart home device providing intuitive illumination-based status signaling Jeffrey A. Boyd, James B. Simister, Adam Mittleman, Fred Bould, David Sloo +3 more 2019-10-08 $32,246,000
10433032 Dynamic distributed-sensor network for crowdsourced event detection Eric B. Daniels, Adam Mittleman, Sierra L. Nelmes, Yoky Matsuoka 2019-10-01 $34,021,000
10411827 Systems and methods for detecting wireless communication jamming in a network Anthony M. Fadell, Scott Mullins, Hirofumi Honjo 2019-09-10 $45,047,000
10402440 Media playback queuing for playback management Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Kyle Yeates 2019-09-03 $96,808,000
10309672 Thermostat wiring connector Daniel Adam Warren, Anthony M. Fadell, Sheng-Nan Yu 2019-06-04 $25,525,000
10132517 Facilitating ambient temperature measurement accuracy in an HVAC controller having internal heat-generating components Yash Modi, Yoki Matsuoka 2018-11-20 $24,551,000
10091897 Electronic devices with clips Pinida Jan Moolsintong, Stephen Brian Lynch 2018-10-02 $93,373,000
10063951 Speaker clip Eugene Antony Whang, Matthew Dean Rohrbach 2018-08-28 $75,868,000
10054964 Building control unit method and controls Eric B. Daniels, Anthony M. Fadell, Matthew Lee Rogers 2018-08-21 $25,241,000
10048852 Thermostat user interface Anthony M. Fadell, Matthew Lee Rogers, David Sloo, Michael Plitkins, Shigefumi Honjo +3 more 2018-08-14 $25,049,000
10032343 Smart home device providing intuitive illumination-based status signaling Jeffrey A. Boyd, James B. Simister, Adam Mittleman, Fred Bould, David Sloo +3 more 2018-07-24 $29,033,000
10013861 Detector unit with multiple integrated sensing systems and visually pleasing housing Anthony M. Fadell, Matthew Lee Rogers, Shigefumi Honjo, Eric B. Daniels, Fred Bould +2 more 2018-07-03 $22,842,000
D819460 Smart home device Anthony M. Fadell, Matthew Lee Rogers, David Sloo, Michael Plitkins, Eric B. Daniels +3 more 2018-06-05
9920946 Remote control of a smart home device Alastair Gourlay, Timo Bruck, Anthony M. Fadell, Matthew Lee Rogers, David Sloo +5 more 2018-03-20 $26,482,000
9875631 Detector unit and sensing chamber therefor Adam Mittleman, Andrew Goldenson, William Dong, Anthony M. Fadell, Matthew Lee Rogers +2 more 2018-01-23 $15,093,000
9871399 Door lock Adam Mittleman, Peter Privitera, Kevin Everett Booth, Kenneth A. Jenks, Mark Kraz +1 more 2018-01-16 $13,141,000
9857961 Thermostat user interface Anthony M. Fadell, Matthew Lee Rogers, David Sloo, Michael Plitkins, Shigefumi Honjo +3 more 2018-01-02 $21,262,000
9810590 System and method for integrating sensors in thermostats Brian Huppi, Fred Bould, David Sloo, Matthew Lee Rogers 2017-11-07 $17,024,000
9787424 Systems and methods for detecting wireless communication jamming in a network Anthony M. Fadell, Scott Mullins, Hirofumi Honjo 2017-10-10 $15,318,000
9720585 User friendly interface Anthony M. Fadell, Matthew Lee Rogers, David Sloo, Michael Plitkins, Shigefumi Honjo +3 more 2017-08-01 $11,442,000
9714772 HVAC controller configurations that compensate for heating caused by direct sunlight Yash Modi, Yoky Matsuoka 2017-07-25 $23,293,000