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Michael Chin — 5 Patents

Apple: 5 patents #5,490 of 18,612Top 30%
Belmont, CA: #560 of 1,494 inventorsTop 40%
California: #107,996 of 386,348 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Michael Chin has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in April 2023. Michael Chin ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Michael Chin in Belmont, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2016 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2016.peak 22016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents20172019: 1 patents20192023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11627244 Synchronization of camera focus movement control with frame capture Abhishek Dhanda, Gregory Guyomarc'h, Mark N. Gamadia, Ling Wang 2023-04-11 $369,350,000
10171786 Lens shading modulation Yingjun Bai, Touraj Tajbakhsh 2019-01-01
9699428 Lens shading modulation Yingjun Bai, Touraj Tajbakhsh 2017-07-04
9477138 Autofocus Ralph Brunner 2016-10-25 $74,258,000
9451155 Depth-segmenting peak tracking autofocus Ralph Brunner 2016-09-20 $55,056,000