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Maxim Smirnov — 29 Patents

Apple: 23 patents #1,411 of 18,612Top 8%
RARambus: 2 patents #324 of 549Top 60%
AMD: 2 patents #5,072 of 9,280Top 55%
Philips: 1 patents #3,761 of 7,731Top 50%
Robert Bosch Gmbh: 1 patents #10,465 of 19,740Top 55%
San Jose, CA: #2,125 of 32,062 inventorsTop 7%
California: #18,137 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
Maxim Smirnov has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in November 2025. Maxim Smirnov ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list Maxim Smirnov in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2021.peak 72004: 1 patents20042009: 2 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 6 patents20202021: 7 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 5 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12462346 Machine learning based noise reduction circuit David R. Pope, Henryk Blasinski, Kal Liu 2025-11-04
12260532 Linear transform of undistorted image for fusion Kaiming Liu, William T. Warner, David R. Pope, Hui Chao, Jason R. Holloway 2025-03-25
11841926 Image fusion processor circuit for dual-mode image fusion architecture Kaiming Liu 2023-12-12 $221,665,000
11836889 Dual-mode image fusion architecture David R. Pope 2023-12-05 $213,405,000
11816858 Noise reduction circuit for dual-mode image fusion architecture Sheng Lin 2023-11-14 $188,958,000
11803949 Image fusion architecture with multimode operations David R. Pope 2023-10-31 $267,879,000
11798146 Image fusion architecture David R. Pope 2023-10-24 $205,836,000
11334961 Multi-scale warping circuit for image fusion architecture William T. Warner, David R. Pope, Manching Ko 2022-05-17 $199,476,000
11164283 Local image warping in image processor using homography transform function Kaiming Liu, David R. Pope 2021-11-02 $262,399,000
11138709 Image fusion processing module Elena Lamburn 2021-10-05 $251,870,000
11074678 Biasing a noise filter to preserve image texture Sheng Lin, Wu Cheng 2021-07-27 $395,238,000
11024006 Tagging clipped pixels for pyramid processing in image signal processor Elena Lamburn, Oren Kerem, Chihsin Wu 2021-06-01 $199,177,000
11010873 Per-pixel photometric contrast enhancement with noise control 2021-05-18 $223,963,000
11010870 Two stage multi-scale processing of image data David R. Pope, Oren Kerem, Elena Lamburn 2021-05-18 $223,963,000
10991083 Directional bilateral filtering with improved noise reduction along edges Sheng Lin, David R. Pope, Farhan A. Baqai 2021-04-27 $300,345,000
10862137 Method for producing a current collector for a fuel cell, and fuel cell Andreas Burghardt, Arne Huber, Daniel Simon, Jens Burghaus, Juergen Oberle +1 more 2020-12-08
10853927 Image fusion architecture D. Amnon Silverstein, David R. Pope, Chihsin Wu 2020-12-01 $185,955,000
10853928 Image fusion processing module Elena Lamburn 2020-12-01 $185,955,000
10825154 Directional bilateral filtering with improved noise reduction along edges Sheng Lin, David R. Pope, Farhan A. Baqai 2020-11-03 $233,982,000
10692191 Per-pixel photometric contrast enhancement with noise control 2020-06-23 $111,648,000
10657623 Two stage multi-scale processing of image data David R. Pope, Oren Kerem, Elena Lamburn 2020-05-19 $120,639,000
10262401 Noise reduction using sequential use of multiple noise models D. Amnon Silverstein 2019-04-16 $92,511,000
10136090 Threshold-monitoring, conditional-reset image sensor Thomas Vogelsang, Michael Guidash, Song S. Xue, Craig M. Smith, Jay Endsley +1 more 2018-11-20 $617,000
9916637 Splitting and merging subband image data 2018-03-13 $130,224,000
9811892 Separating sub-band image data for processing and merging with unprocessed image data D. Amnon Silverstein, David R. Pope, Simon Wolfenden Butler 2017-11-07 $107,671,000