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John C. Hurley — 15 Patents

Apple: 11 patents #2,966 of 18,612Top 20%
NVIDIA: 1 patents #4,387 of 7,811Top 60%
Santa Clara, CA: #1,138 of 9,301 inventorsTop 15%
California: #40,789 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
John C. Hurley has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in April 2025. John C. Hurley ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list John C. Hurley in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2019.peak 31999: 1 patents19992001: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032007: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102012: 1 patents2019: 3 patents20192020: 2 patents2021: 1 patents20212023: 1 patents2024: 1 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12287965 Dynamic group membership for devices Mitchell D. Adler, Michael Brouwer, Andrew R. Whalley, Richard F. Murphy, David P. Finkelstein 2025-04-29
12169489 Devices, systems, and methods for accelerating character matching Antonio Munoz Ortega, Gareth Richard Douglas 2024-12-17
11669244 Dynamic group membership for devices Mitchell D. Adler, Michael Brouwer, Andrew R. Whalley, Richard F. Murphy, David P. Finkelstein 2023-06-06 $190,322,000
11042664 Efficient implementation for differential privacy using cryptographic functions Yannick L. Sierra, Abhradeep Guha Thakurta, Umesh S. Vaishampayan, Keaton F. Mowery, Michael Brouwer 2021-06-22 $370,261,000
10747435 Synchronization and verification groups among related devices Mitchell D. Adler, Michael Brouwer, Andrew R. Whalley, Richard F. Murphy, David P. Finkelstein 2020-08-18 $218,601,000
10552631 Efficient implementation for differential privacy using cryptographic functions Yannick L. Sierra, Abhradeep Guha Thakurta, Umesh S. Vaishampayan, Keaton F. Mowery, Michael Brouwer 2020-02-04 $97,170,000
10318154 Dynamic group membership for devices Mitchell D. Adler, Michael Brouwer, Andrew R. Whalley, Richard F. Murphy, David P. Finkelstein 2019-06-11 $92,962,000
10229282 Efficient implementation for differential privacy using cryptographic functions Yannick L. Sierra, Abhradeep Guha Thakurta, Umesh S. Vaishampayan, Keaton F. Mowery, Michael Brouwer 2019-03-12 $142,807,000
10198182 Synchronization and verification groups among related devices Mitchell D. Adler, Michael Brouwer, Andrew R. Whalley, Richard F. Murphy, David P. Finkelstein 2019-02-05 $70,781,000
8108685 Apparatus and method for indicating password quality and variety — 2012-01-31 $186,164,000
7802099 Method and apparatus for establishing a secure connection Douglas P. Mitchell 2010-09-21 $141,588,000
7299359 Apparatus and method for indicating password quality and variety — 2007-11-20 $409,132,000
6519581 Collection of information regarding a device or a user of a device across a communication link William D. Hofmann 2003-02-11
6236983 Method and apparatus for collecting information regarding a device or a user of a device William D. Hofmann 2001-05-22
5984508 System, method and article of manufacture for product return of software and other information — 1999-11-16

Frequent Collaborators

Michael Brouwer8 shared
David P. Finkelstein5 shared
Andrew R. Whalley5 shared
Richard F. Murphy5 shared
Mitchell D. Adler5 shared
Umesh S. Vaishampayan3 shared

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