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Michael B. Howes — 32 Patents

Apple: 32 patents #961 of 18,612Top 6%
Mountain View, CA: #554 of 11,022 inventorsTop 6%
California: #15,919 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Michael B. Howes has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2015 and the most recent in March 2025. Michael B. Howes ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Michael B. Howes in Mountain View, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12256186 Wireless earphone Zachary C. Rich, Kurt Stiehl, Arun D. Chawan, Jonathan S. Aase, Esge B. Andersen +11 more 2025-03-18
11937037 Wireless earphone Zachary C. Rich, Kurt Stiehl, Arun D. Chawan, Jonathan S. Aase, Esge B. Andersen +11 more 2024-03-19 $131,219,000
11750966 Earphone having a controlled acoustic leak port Yacine Azmi, Scott P. Porter, Jonathan S. Aase, Andrew P. Bright, Christopher Wilk 2023-09-05 $187,157,000
11575985 Mass loaded earbud with vent chamber Yacine Azmi, Esge B. Andersen, Jonathan S. Aase 2023-02-07 $350,871,000
11499255 Textile product having reduced density John J. Baker, Michael S. Nashner, Yoji Hamada 2022-11-15 $272,708,000
11432096 Handsfree beam pattern configuration John J. Baker, Martin E. Johnson, Afrooz Family, Craig M. Stanley, Brad G. Boozer 2022-08-30 $200,913,000
11363363 Wireless earphone Zachary C. Rich, Kurt Stiehl, Arun D. Chawan, Jonathan S. Aase, Esge B. Andersen +11 more 2022-06-14 $183,231,000
11317196 Earphone having a controlled acoustic leak port Yacine Azmi, Scott P. Porter, Jonathan S. Aase, Andrew P. Bright, Christopher Wilk 2022-04-26 $199,478,000
11265653 Audio system with configurable zones Afrooz Family, Anthony P. Bidmead, Erik L. Wang, Gary P. Geaves, Martin E. Johnson +3 more 2022-03-01 $259,568,000
11190870 Rotationally symmetric speaker array Martin E. Johnson, Gordon R. Dix, Gary P. Geaves, Tom-Davy W. Saux 2021-11-30 $261,062,000
10805713 Mass loaded earbud with vent chamber Yacine Azmi, Esge B. Andersen, Jonathan S. Aase 2020-10-13 $241,153,000
10798482 Rotationally symmetric speaker array Martin E. Johnson, Gordon R. Dix, Gary P. Geaves, Tom-Davy W. Saux 2020-10-06 $282,421,000
10694282 Earphone having a controlled acoustic leak port Yacine Azmi, Scott P. Porter, Jonathan S. Aase, Andrew P. Bright, Christopher Wilk 2020-06-23 $111,648,000
10609484 Audio system with configurable zones Afrooz Family, Anthony P. Bidmead, Erik L. Wang, Gary P. Geaves, Martin E. Johnson +3 more 2020-03-31 $77,902,000
10567861 Wireless earphone Zachary C. Rich, Kurt Stiehl, Arun D. Chawan, Jonathan S. Aase, Esge B. Andersen +11 more 2020-02-18 $93,096,000
10356510 Earphone having a controlled acoustic leak port Yacine Azmi, Scott P. Porter, Jonathan S. Aase, Andrew P. Bright, Christopher Wilk 2019-07-16 $90,112,000
10251008 Handsfree beam pattern configuration John J. Baker, Martin E. Johnson, Afrooz Family, Craig M. Stanley, Brad G. Boozer 2019-04-02 $116,622,000
10154339 Rotationally symmetric speaker array Martin E. Johnson, Gordon R. Dix, Gary P. Geaves, Tom-Davy W. Saux 2018-12-11 $115,928,000
10149046 Rotationally symmetric speaker array Martin E. Johnson, Gordon R. Dix, Gary P. Geaves, Tom-Davy W. Saux 2018-12-04 $82,334,000
10110984 Wireless earphone Zachary C. Rich, Kurt Stiehl, Arun D. Chawan, Jonathan S. Aase, Esge B. Andersen +11 more 2018-10-23 $108,278,000
10075783 Acoustically summed reference microphone for active noise control Miikka O. Tikander 2018-09-11 $138,338,000
9942648 Mass loaded earbud with vent chamber Yacine Azmi, Esge B. Andersen, Jonathan S. Aase 2018-04-10 $65,044,000
9936284 Earphone having an acoustic tuning mechanism Yacine Azmi, Scott P. Porter, Jonathan S. Aase 2018-04-03 $86,753,000
9781506 Earphone having a controlled acoustic leak port Yacine Azmi, Scott P. Porter, Jonathan S. Aase, Andrew P. Bright, Christopher Wilk 2017-10-03 $57,959,000
9578412 Mass loaded earbud with vent chamber Yacine Azmi, Esge B. Andersen, Jonathan S. Aase 2017-02-21 $62,812,000