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Malcolm J. Northcott — 42 Patents

Apple: 20 patents #1,639 of 18,612Top 9%
ATAoptix Technologies: 19 patents #2 of 32Top 7%
Santa Cruz, CA: #67 of 1,911 inventorsTop 4%
California: #10,667 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #72,062 of 4,157,543Top 2%
42 Patents All Time
Malcolm J. Northcott has been granted 42 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in December 2025. Malcolm J. Northcott ranks #72,062 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Malcolm J. Northcott in Santa Cruz, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 42 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12498462 LiDAR array with vertically-coupled transceivers Nurul Taimur Islam, Christopher Martin Rogers, Helen H. Liang, Ehsan Shah-Hosseini, Jack E. Graves +2 more 2025-12-16
12386045 Enhanced LiDAR measurements using chirp nonlinearities Nurul Taimur Islam, Helen H. Liang, Jack E. Graves 2025-08-12
12164124 Retroreflectors Randol Aikin, Daniel E. Potter, Matthew E. Last 2024-12-10 $286,613,000
12019027 Systems and accessories for optical analysis of samples on portable electronic devices Clarisse Mazuir, Jack E. Graves 2024-06-25 $209,077,000
11851030 Window defect sensing and image processing Clarisse Mazuir, Jack E. Graves, James R. Wilson, Christopher D. Jones, Martin Melcher 2023-12-26 $179,025,000
11555900 LiDAR system with enhanced area coverage Oz Barak, James J. Reuther, Nadav Fine 2023-01-17 $260,064,000
11383649 Securable storage compartments Matthew E. Last, Kan Zhou, David P. Perner 2022-07-12 $249,045,000
11348345 Window defect sensing and image processing Clarisse Mazuir, Jack E. Graves, James R. Wilson, Christopher D. Jones, Martin Melcher 2022-05-31 $175,196,000
11130391 Active glare suppression system Hyungryul Choi, Arthur Y. Zhang, Cheng Chen, Graham B. Myhre, Matheen Siddiqui +2 more 2021-09-28
11117535 System and method for interactive scene projection Daniel E. Potter, Bivin J. Varghese, Christopher Peter Child, Mira S. Misra, Clarisse Mazuir +7 more 2021-09-14
11016505 Power connector assembly Randol Aikin 2021-05-25 $283,400,000
10908328 Retroreflectors Randol Aikin, Daniel E. Potter, Matthew E. Last 2021-02-02 $228,514,000
10860142 Light-based devices with light guide arrays Daniel E. Potter, Clarisse Mazuir, Weisong Toh, Piyush Prashant Dondeti 2020-12-08 $251,566,000
10755123 Window defect sensing and image processing Clarisse Mazuir, Jack E. Graves, James R. Wilson, Christopher D. Jones, Martin Melcher 2020-08-25 $205,423,000
10518674 Passive safety system for occupant deceleration Randol Aikin 2019-12-31 $109,024,000
10502879 Systems with colored infrared-transparent layers Arthur Y. Zhang, Bradford J. Zercoe, Matthew E. Last, Jack E. Graves, Irene Perali 2019-12-10 $122,796,000
10466395 Systems with matte infrared-transparent layers Matthew E. Last, Irene Perali, Bradford J. Zercoe 2019-11-05 $118,994,000
10414344 Securable storage compartments Matthew E. Last, Kan Zhou, David P. Perner 2019-09-17 $100,781,000
10326950 Image capture at multiple resolutions 2019-06-18 $140,625,000
10108202 Peloton Randol Aikin 2018-10-23 $108,278,000
10091441 Image capture at multiple resolutions 2018-10-02 $93,373,000
9855887 Dynamic control of projected light relative to a scene Daniel E. Potter, Matthew E. Last, Randol Aikin, Christy Fernandez Cull 2018-01-02 $85,152,000
9544052 Simple low cost tip-tilt wavefront sensor having extended dynamic range J. Elon Graves, Siegfried Fleischer, Paolo Zambon, Jeffrey Tuttle, Yu-Chun Chang 2017-01-10
9166684 Integrated commercial communications network using radio frequency and free space optical data communication Chandrasekhar Pusarla, Srinivas Sivaprakasam, Joseph Shiran, J. Elon Graves, Howard Dando +2 more 2015-10-20
8942562 Integrated commercial communications network using radio frequency and free space optical data communication Chandrasekhar Pusarla, Srinivas Sivaprakasam, Joseph Shiran, J. Elon Graves, Howard Dando +2 more 2015-01-27