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Michael R. Sumner — 7 Patents

Apple: 7 patents #4,315 of 18,612Top 25%
Cary, NC: #868 of 3,681 inventorsTop 25%
North Carolina: #7,540 of 45,564 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Michael R. Sumner has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2018 and the most recent in August 2025. Michael R. Sumner ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Michael R. Sumner in Cary, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2018 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2018.peak 22018: 2 patents20182020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents20222024: 1 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12394412 Voice-activated shortcut registration Cameron BURGESS, Ari Weinstein, Ross A. Freeman, Michael A. Gorbach, Lynn I. STREJA 2025-08-19
12293203 Digital assistant integration with system interface Neal S. ELLIS, Cameron BURGESS, Pedro Mari, Trungtin TRAN, James N. JONES 2025-05-06
11995457 Digital assistant integration with system interface Neal S. ELLIS, Cameron BURGESS, Pedro Mari, Trungtin TRAN, James N. JONES 2024-05-28 $205,493,000
11231904 Reducing response latency of intelligent automated assistants Evan S. Dibiase 2022-01-25 $316,687,000
10567477 Virtual assistant continuity Evan S. Dibiase, Benjamin S. Phipps 2020-02-18 $93,096,000
10152299 Reducing response latency of intelligent automated assistants Evan S. Dibiase 2018-12-11 $115,928,000
9865280 Structured dictation using intelligent automated assistants Brandon J. NEWENDORP, Ryan Orr 2018-01-09 $85,605,000