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Nicholas V. King — 170 Patents

Apple: 170 patents #105 of 18,612Top 1%
San Jose, CA: #76 of 32,062 inventorsTop 1%
California: #788 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #4,802 of 4,157,543Top 1%
170 Patents All Time
Nicholas V. King has been granted 170 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in December 2025. Nicholas V. King ranks #4,802 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.12%). Patent records list Nicholas V. King in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 20 patents in 2019.peak 202009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 4 patents2013: 8 patents20132014: 13 patents2015: 8 patents20152016: 9 patents2017: 17 patents20172018: 15 patents2019: 20 patents20192020: 20 patents2021: 12 patents20212022: 13 patents2023: 8 patents20232024: 11 patents2025: 9 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 170 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12494026 Synchronized, interactive augmented reality displays for multifunction devices Brett Bilbrey, Aleksandar Pance 2025-12-09
D1105117 Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface Lori CHOY, Michael Charles Evashevski, Kevin C. KUPILLAS, Thomas Miller, Hannah Rose Suvalko 2025-12-09
D1088012 Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface Freddy Anzures, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Bradley William Griffin, Jonathan P. Ive +7 more 2025-08-12
12346550 Devices and methods for capturing and interacting with enhanced digital images Christopher P. Foss, Jonathan R. Dascola, Daniel T. Preston, Behkish J. Manzari, Justin S. Titi +2 more 2025-07-01
12314560 Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for initiating a payment action in a messaging session Imran Chaudhri, Freddy Anzures, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Wan Si Wan, Darin B. Adler +5 more 2025-05-27
D1073687 Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface Matthew Sanders 2025-05-06
12287962 User interface for manipulating user interface objects Nicholas Zambetti, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan R. Dascola, Alan C. Dye, Christopher P. Foss +14 more 2025-04-29
12260039 Electronic communication based on user input Freddy Anzures, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr +5 more 2025-03-25
12210730 User interface for multi-user communication session Freddy Anzures, Stephen O. Lemay, Hoan Pham, Giancarlo Yerkes 2025-01-28
12170834 Creative camera Marcel van Os, Lee Broughton, Grant R. Paul, William A. Sorrentino, III 2024-12-17 $588,520,000
12154450 User interfaces for tracking of physical activity events Matthew J. Sundstrom, Nicholas Felton, Gary Butcher, Joseph Chan, Jules K. Fennis +8 more 2024-11-26 $261,880,000
D1052613 Electronic device with graphical user interface Kellie ALBERT, Wan Si Wan, Eric Lance Wilson 2024-11-26
12135871 Device, method, and graphical user interface for switching between user interfaces Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Avi E. Cieplinski, Duncan Robert Kerr 2024-11-05 $371,466,000
12105557 Housing as an I/O device Aleksandar Pance, Duncan Robert Kerr, Brett Bilbrey 2024-10-01 $316,155,000
12050761 Device, method, and graphical user interface for transitioning from low power mode Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Avi E. Cieplinski, Duncan Robert Kerr 2024-07-30 $262,939,000
D1029028 Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface Freddy Anzures, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Bradley William Griffin, Jonathan P. Ive +7 more 2024-05-28
11983702 Displaying a representation of a card with a layered structure Stacey R. Abrams 2024-05-14 $205,807,000
11966579 Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for messaging Imran Chaudhri, Freddy Anzures, Richard R. Dellinger, Hoan Pham, Wan Si Wan +5 more 2024-04-23 $223,464,000
11954323 Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for initiating a payment action in a messaging session Imran Chaudhri, Freddy Anzures, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Wan Si Wan, Darin B. Adler +4 more 2024-04-09 $191,830,000
11921975 Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for manipulating user interface objects with visual and/or haptic feedback Jonathan R. Dascola, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Stephen O. Lemay, Gregory M. Apodaca +1 more 2024-03-05 $135,445,000
11849255 Multi-participant live communication user interface Marcel van Os, Lee Broughton, Peter D. Callaway, Pablo F. Caro, Jae Woo Chang +7 more 2023-12-19 $278,263,000
11835985 Devices and methods for capturing and interacting with enhanced digital images Henrique Penha, Sebastian J. Bauer, Imran Chaudhri, Graham R. Clarke, Alan C. Dye +9 more 2023-12-05 $213,405,000
D1001149 Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface Joseph Chan, Alan C. Dye, Joseph Mark Willoughby Luxton 2023-10-10
D999783 Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface Christopher P. Foss, Stephen O. Lemay, Richard D. Lyons, Charmian Naguit, Matthew J. Sundstrom +1 more 2023-09-26
11721073 Synchronized, interactive augmented reality displays for multifunction devices Brett Bilbrey, Aleksandar Pance 2023-08-08 $174,735,000