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Michael R. Malone — 15 Patents

Apple: 10 patents #3,225 of 18,612Top 20%
ITInvisage Technologies: 5 patents #11 of 37Top 30%
San Jose, CA: #4,373 of 32,062 inventorsTop 15%
California: #40,789 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Michael R. Malone has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in January 2024. Michael R. Malone ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Michael R. Malone in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2016.peak 52014: 1 patents20142016: 5 patents20162017: 3 patents20172018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents20192021: 2 patents20212023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11868455 Biometric authentication techniques Deepti S. Prakash, Lucia E. Ballard, Jerrold V. Hauck, Feng Tang, Etai Littwin +18 more 2024-01-09 $219,732,000
11653111 Exposure truncation for image sensors Ashwini Dwarakanath 2023-05-16 $320,384,000
11151235 Biometric authentication techniques Deepti S. Prakash, Lucia E. Ballard, Jerrold V. Hauck, Feng Tang, Etai Littwin +19 more 2021-10-19 $254,245,000
10929515 Biometric authentication techniques Deepti S. Prakash, Lucia E. Ballard, Jerrold V. Hauck, Feng Tang, Etai Littwin +18 more 2021-02-23 $266,795,000
10506147 Devices and methods for high-resolution image and video capture Pierre Henri Rene Della Nave, Michael Charles Brading, Jess Jan Young Lee, Hui Tian, Igor Ivanov +1 more 2019-12-10
9972652 Photodetector comprising a pinned photodiode that is formed by an optically sensitive layer and a silicon diode Edward Hartley Sargent, Rajsapan Jain, Igor Ivanov, Michael Charles Brading, Hui Tian +2 more 2018-05-15
9667865 Optical demodulation using an image sensor Richard L. Baer, Ting Chen, David Amnon Silverstein 2017-05-30 $83,886,000
9596420 Image sensor having pixels with different integration periods Xiaofeng Fan, Chiajen Lee, Anup K. Sharma 2017-03-14 $102,198,000
9538106 Image sensor having a uniform digital power signature Andrew Kenneth John McMahon, Chiajen Lee 2017-01-03 $61,757,000
9491388 Photodetector comprising a pinned photodiode that is formed by an optically sensitive layer and a silicon diode Edward Hartley Sargent, Rajsapan Jain, Igor Ivanov, Michael Charles Brading, Hui Tian +2 more 2016-11-08
9473706 Image sensor flicker detection Chiajen Lee, Christopher G. Zeleznik 2016-10-18 $70,285,000
9369621 Devices and methods for high-resolution image and video capture Pierre Henri Rene Della Nave, Michael Charles Brading, Jess Jan Young Lee, Hui Tian, Igor Ivanov +1 more 2016-06-14
9343177 Accessing control registers over a data bus 2016-05-17 $65,705,000
9277144 System and method for estimating an ambient light condition using an image sensor and field-of-view compensation Suppawan Kleekajai, Micah P. Kalscheur 2016-03-01 $57,077,000
8916947 Photodetector comprising a pinned photodiode that is formed by an optically sensitive layer and a silicon diode Edward Hartley Sargent, Rajsapan Jain, Igor Ivanov, Michael Charles Brading, Hui Tian +2 more 2014-12-23