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Michael Van Milligan — 6 Patents

Apple: 6 patents #4,834 of 18,612Top 30%
San Francisco, CA: #7,181 of 26,999 inventorsTop 30%
California: #94,478 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Michael Van Milligan has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in May 2016. Michael Van Milligan ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Michael Van Milligan in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2015.peak 22012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents20152016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9344339 Efficient service discovery for peer-to-peer networking devices Rory L. P. McGuire, Jason C. Conn, Joshua V. Graessley, Augustin Prats, Brian J. Tucker 2016-05-17 $65,705,000
9104476 Opportunistic multitasking of VOIP applications Thomas Brogan Duffy, Jr., Eric Albert, Damien P. Sorresso, Neil G. Crane, Lucia E. Ballard +1 more 2015-08-11 $74,771,000
9009297 Method and apparatus for idling a network connection Cahya Adiansyah Masputra, Joshua V. Graessley 2015-04-14 $82,451,000
8706855 Method and apparatus for idling a network connection Cahya Adiansyah Masputra, Joshua V. Graessley 2014-04-22 $56,643,000
8572248 Efficient service discovery for peer-to-peer networking devices Rory L. P. McGuire, Jason C. Conn, Joshua V. Graessley, Augustin Prats, Brian J. Tucker 2013-10-29 $90,036,000
8285860 Efficient service discovery for peer-to-peer networking devices Rory L. P. McGuire, Jason C. Conn, Joshua V. Graessley, Augustin Prats, Brian J. Tucker 2012-10-09 $139,406,000