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Mike Lai — 4 Patents

Apple: 3 patents #7,530 of 18,612Top 45%
Microsoft: 1 patents #24,968 of 40,388Top 65%
Fremont, CA: #3,591 of 9,298 inventorsTop 40%
California: #126,026 of 386,348 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Mike Lai has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in March 2008. Mike Lai ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Mike Lai in Fremont, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2004.peak 22004: 2 patents20042006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7343542 Methods and apparatuses for variable length encoding Chien-Hsin Lin, Mushtaq A. Sarwar, Mitchell Howard Oslick 2008-03-11 $137,832,000
6986043 Encrypting file system and method Brian D. Andrew, Jianrong Gu, Mark J. Zbikowski, Praerit Garg, Wesley Witt +1 more 2006-01-10 $36,413,000
6781529 Methods and apparatuses for variable length encoding Chien-Hsin Lin, Mushtaq A. Sarwar, Mitchell Howard Oslick 2004-08-24 $57,039,000
6707398 Methods and apparatuses for packing bitstreams Chien-Hsin Lin, Mushtaq A. Sarwar, Alexei Ouzilevaski 2004-03-16 $14,692,000