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Michael D. Ford — 13 Patents

Apple: 13 patents #2,537 of 18,612Top 15%
Portola Valley, CA: #160 of 621 inventorsTop 30%
California: #47,433 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Michael D. Ford has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in March 2025. Michael D. Ford ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Michael D. Ford in Portola Valley, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12239884 User interfaces for group workouts Anthony D'Auria, Julie A. Arney, Jae Woo Chang, Edward Chao, Nathan de Vries +1 more 2025-03-04
11992730 User interfaces for group workouts Anthony D'Auria, Jae Woo Chang, Edward Chao, Nathan de Vries, Colin G. MCKINSTRY 2024-05-28 $205,493,000
11985506 User interfaces for workout content Lynne Devine, Joel Angelone, Julie A. Arney, Niharika M. Bedekar, Jay Kriz Blahnik +7 more 2024-05-14 $205,807,000
11938376 User interfaces for group workouts Anthony D'Auria, Julie A. Arney, Jae Woo Chang, Edward Chao, Nathan de Vries +2 more 2024-03-26 $155,925,000
11931625 User interfaces for group workouts Anthony D'Auria, Jae Woo Chang, Edward Chao, Nathan de Vries, Colin G. MCKINSTRY 2024-03-19 $131,219,000
11896871 User interfaces for physical activity information Craig D. BOLTON, Julie A. Arney, Jay Kriz Blahnik, Edward Chao, Anthony D'Auria +4 more 2024-02-13 $152,277,000
11799955 Data synchronization across multiple devices Joao Pedro De Almeida Forjaz De Lacerda, Giovanni Agnoli, Bob Bradley, Joshua R. Ford, Brian E. Korver +6 more 2023-10-24 $205,836,000
11564103 User interfaces for workout content Lynne Devine, Joel Angelone, Julie A. Arney, Chandler S. Bachman, Jay Kriz Blahnik +13 more 2023-01-24 $273,522,000
11190586 Cloud storage and synchronization of messages Kevin J. Lindeman, Roberto Garcia, Gokul P. Thirumalai, Alexandre Aybes, Bhaskar P. Sarma +3 more 2021-11-30 $261,062,000
10872042 Backup system with multiple recovery keys Jerrold V. Hauck, Matthew G. Watson, Mitchell D. Adler, Dallas B. De Atley, James Wilson 2020-12-22 $332,226,000
10742732 Cloud storage and synchronization of messages Kevin J. Lindeman, Roberto Garcia, Gokul P. Thirumalai, Alexandre Aybes, Bhaskar P. Sarma +3 more 2020-08-11 $147,060,000
9904629 Backup system with multiple recovery keys Jerrold V. Hauck, Matthew G. Watson, Mitchell D. Adler, Dallas B. De Atley, James Wilson 2018-02-27 $145,349,000
9842062 Backup accessible by subset of related devices Jerrold V. Hauck, Matthew G. Watson, Mitchell D. Adler, Dallas B. De Atley, James Wilson 2017-12-12 $79,339,000