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Patrick C. Beard — 10 Patents

Apple: 9 patents #3,521 of 18,612Top 20%
Cupertino, CA: #1,610 of 6,989 inventorsTop 25%
California: #61,378 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Patrick C. Beard has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in October 2021. Patrick C. Beard ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Patrick C. Beard in Cupertino, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11135961 Road transport apparatus for helicopter Frédéric Lamy 2021-10-05
10224012 Dynamic music authoring Robert W. Baker, Gerhard Lengeling, Alec H. Little, Ole Lagemann, Danny Patterson +1 more 2019-03-05 $88,700,000
9953624 Dynamic music authoring Robert W. Baker, Gerhard Lengeling, Alec H. Little, Ole Lagemann, Danny Patterson +1 more 2018-04-24 $65,456,000
9640158 Dynamic music authoring Robert W. Baker, Gerhard Lengeling, Alec H. Little, Ole Lagemann, Danny Patterson +1 more 2017-05-02 $80,146,000
8255436 Per thread garbage collection Gerald Blaine Garst, Jr., Gregory Robert Parker, Douglas Joshua Behnke 2012-08-28 $72,244,000
7991808 Per thread garbage collection Gerald Blaine Garst, Jr., Gregory Robert Parker, Douglas Joshua Behnke 2011-08-02 $120,903,000
7882159 Associative references in a garbage collected programming environment 2011-02-01 $75,080,000
6067577 Dynamic method resolution for native methods in a dynamic object-oriented programming language 2000-05-23 $199,892,000
5911069 Exception handling techniques for native methods bound to SOM classes 1999-06-08 $20,894,000
5875335 Parameter marshaling techniques for dynamic object-oriented programming languages 1999-02-23 $20,297,000