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John T. Wetherell — 19 Patents

Apple: 15 patents #2,200 of 18,612Top 15%
MAMaxlinear: 3 patents #82 of 266Top 35%
Motorola: 1 patents #8,716 of 14,142Top 65%
San Jose, CA: #3,451 of 32,062 inventorsTop 15%
California: #31,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
John T. Wetherell has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in December 2025. John T. Wetherell ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list John T. Wetherell in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2023.peak 71996: 1 patents19962013: 1 patents20132015: 1 patents20152019: 1 patents20192021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents20222023: 7 patents20232024: 3 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12499815 In-pixel compensation for current droop and in-pixel compensation timing Jeremy Lee, Hasan Akyol, Xianhua Lu, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Nikhil Acharya +8 more 2025-12-16
12300139 Foveated driving for power saving Omar Hafiz, Baris Cagdaser, Han Zhao 2025-05-13
12159574 Local passive matrix display Derek K. Shaeffer, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Xiaofeng Wang, Sam S. Li, Henry C. Jen +6 more 2024-12-03 $369,762,000
12080201 Touch sensing utilizing integrated micro circuitry Christian M. Sauer, Christoph H. Krah, Derek K. Shaeffer, Hasan Akyol, Henry C. Jen 2024-09-03 $189,878,000
12027117 Pixel screening and repair Cheuk Chi Lo, Chun-Yao Huang, Lingtao Wang, Derek K. Shaeffer, Henry C. Jen +10 more 2024-07-02 $221,119,000
11783739 On-chip testing architecture for display system Hasan Akyol, Xuebei Yang, Chung-Lun Hsu, Henry C. Jen 2023-10-10 $182,572,000
11775095 Touch sensing utilizing integrated micro circuitry Christian M. Sauer, Christoph H. Krah, Derek K. Shaeffer, Hasan Akyol, Henry C. Jen +1 more 2023-10-03 $152,687,000
11705037 Foveated driving for power saving Omar Hafiz, Baris Cagdaser, Han Zhao 2023-07-18 $362,289,000
11657742 Circuitry for screening defective portion of display chip Hasan Akyol, Chung-Lun Hsu, Baris Cagdaser, Xuebei Yang, Ali Tabatabaei +5 more 2023-05-23 $278,359,000
11651719 Enhanced smoothness digital-to-analog converter interpolation systems and methods Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Jaeyoung Christopher Kang, Shingo Hatanaka, Hasan Akyol, Hopil Bae 2023-05-16 $320,384,000
11645976 Local passive matrix display Derek K. Shaeffer, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Xiaofeng Wang, Sam S. Li, Henry C. Jen +6 more 2023-05-09 $324,008,000
11645957 Defective display source driver screening and repair Hasan Akyol, Xuebei Yang, Xiaofeng Wang, Hopil Bae 2023-05-09 $324,008,000
11263963 Local passive matrix display Derek K. Shaeffer, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Xiaofeng Wang, Sam S. Li, Henry C. Jen +6 more 2022-03-01 $259,568,000
11176888 Auto-zero applied buffer for display circuitry Shingo Hatanaka, Derek K. Shaeffer, Nobutaka Shimamura, Yuichi Okuda, Jaeyoung Christopher Kang 2021-11-16 $241,630,000
11073927 Touch sensing utilizing integrated micro circuitry Christian M. Sauer, Christoph H. Krah, Derek K. Shaeffer, Hasan Akyol, Henry C. Jen +3 more 2021-07-27 $395,238,000
10361670 Gain partitioning in a receiver Curtis Ling, Madhukar Reddy 2019-07-23 $14,891,000
9059672 Gain partitioning in a receiver Curtis Ling, Madhukar Reddy 2015-06-16 $6,011,000
8577319 Gain partitioning in a receiver Curtis Ling, Madhukar Reddy 2013-11-05 $1,960,000
5557242 Method and apparatus for dielectric absorption compensation 1996-09-17 $15,771,000