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Martin P. Grunthaner — 66 Patents

Apple: 66 patents #382 of 18,612Top 3%
Los Altos Hills, CA: #38 of 812 inventorsTop 5%
California: #4,970 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #32,599 of 4,157,543Top 1%
66 Patents All Time
Martin P. Grunthaner has been granted 66 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in September 2023. Martin P. Grunthaner ranks #32,599 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.78%). Patent records list Martin P. Grunthaner in Los Altos Hills, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 15 patents in 2018.peak 152012: 1 patents20122013: 5 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 7 patents2016: 6 patents20162017: 9 patents2018: 15 patents20182019: 9 patents2020: 5 patents20202021: 3 patents2022: 2 patents20222023: 3 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 66 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11747950 Force determination based on capacitive sensing Jonah A. Harley, Peter W. Richards, Brian Q. Huppi, Omar S. Leung, Dhaval N. Shah +15 more 2023-09-05 $187,157,000
11733801 Touch sensor panel architecture with multiple sensing mode capabilities Brian H. KNABENSHUE, Albert Lin, Jason Hu, Christian M. Sauer 2023-08-22 $159,607,000
11561647 Pixelated self-capacitance water rejection Yingxuan Li, Weijun Yao, Vivek Pant, Marduke Yousefpor, Sumant Ranganathan 2023-01-24 $273,522,000
11460964 Opaque thin film passivation Seung Jae Hong, Sunggu Kang, John Z. Zhong 2022-10-04 $219,253,000
11275475 Compliant material for protecting capacitive force sensors and increasing capacitive sensitivity Daniel J. Bechstein, Collin R. Petty, Andrew W. Joyce, John R. Matthews, Pavan O. Gupta +1 more 2022-03-15 $265,207,000
11163399 Split sense lines for negative pixel conpensation Marduke Yousefpor 2021-11-02 $262,399,000
11016616 Multi-domain touch sensing with touch and display circuitry operable in guarded power domain Christian M. Sauer, Christoph H. Krah, Steven P. Hotelling 2021-05-25 $283,400,000
10921943 Compliant material for protecting capacitive force sensors and increasing capacitive sensitivity Daniel J. Bechstein, Collin R. Petty, Andrew W. Joyce, John R. Matthews, Pavan O. Gupta +1 more 2021-02-16 $232,802,000
10817096 Force sensor incorporated into display Charley T. Ogata, Michael B. Wittenberg, Peter W. Richards, Romain A. Teil, Steven P. Hotelling 2020-10-27 $347,521,000
10739899 Force determination employing sheet sensor Sinan Filiz, John Stephen Smith, Charley T. Ogata, Christian M. Sauer, Shin John Choi +2 more 2020-08-11 $147,060,000
10739855 Electronic device configured to collect biometric and amount of force data when a user touches a displayed image Sora Kim, Rui Jin, Michael B. Wittenberg, Michael K. McCord, Henric Larsson +3 more 2020-08-11 $147,060,000
10712867 Pixelated self-capacitance water rejection Yingxuan Li, Weijun Yao, Vivek Pant, Marduke Yousefpor, Sumant Ranganathan 2020-07-14 $127,404,000
10635217 Ultrasound-based force sensing of inputs Brian Q. Huppi, John Greer Elias, Sinan Filiz, Steven P. Hotelling 2020-04-28 $120,851,000
10466829 Temperature compensating sensor having a compliant layer separating independent force sensing substrates and sense circuitry to obtain a relative measure between the force sensing substrates Sinan Filiz, James E. Pedder, Charley T. Ogata, John Stephen Smith, Dhaval Chandrakant Patel +3 more 2019-11-05 $118,994,000
10423265 Temperature compensating force sensor Sinan Filiz, James E. Pedder, Charley T. Ogata, John Stephen Smith, Dhaval Chandrakant Patel +3 more 2019-09-24 $183,092,000
10386970 Force determination based on capacitive sensing Jonah A. Harley, Peter W. Richards, Brian Q. Huppi, Omar S. Leung, Dhaval N. Shah +15 more 2019-08-20 $106,570,000
10379612 Electronic device with gaze tracking system Nicolas P. Bonnier, William M. Riedel, Jiaying Wu, Seyed Hesameddin Najafi Shoushtari 2019-08-13 $108,006,000
10379657 Force determination employing sheet sensor and capacitive array Sinan Filiz, John Stephen Smith, Charley T. Ogata, Christian M. Sauer, Shin John Choi +2 more 2019-08-13 $108,006,000
10310667 Multi-bar capacitive sense electrode Alexandre Gourevitch, Albert Lin, Isaac Wing-Tak Chan, Prathit BUGNAIT, Seyed Mohammad Navidpour +1 more 2019-06-04 $74,703,000
10268320 Method for disambiguating multiple touches on a projection-scan touch sensor panel Wayne Carl Westerman, Steven P. Hotelling, Christopher Tenzin Mullens 2019-04-23 $89,186,000
10198123 Mitigating noise in capacitive sensor Cheng Chen, Erik A. Uttermann, Kevin D. Gibbs, Manu Agarwal 2019-02-05 $70,781,000
10168814 Force sensing based on capacitance changes Steven P. Hotelling, Peter W. Richards, Romain A. Teil, Charley T. Ogata, Michael B. Wittenberg 2019-01-01
10162444 Force sensor incorporated into display Charley T. Ogata, Michael B. Wittenberg, Peter W. Richards, Romain A. Teil, Steven P. Hotelling 2018-12-25
10139959 Self-calibration of force sensors and inertial compensation Christopher J. Butler, Peter W. Richards, Romain A. Teil, Sinan Filiz 2018-11-27 $118,719,000
10120478 Piezo based force sensing Sinan Filiz, Brian Q. Huppi, Christopher J. Butler, Shahrooz Shahparnia, Sunggu Kang +1 more 2018-11-06 $86,987,000