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Peter Westen — 36 Patents

Apple: 27 patents #1,158 of 18,612Top 7%
ICInc Square, Co.: 7 patents #75 of 546Top 15%
Block: 2 patents #202 of 545Top 40%
Mountain View, CA: #455 of 11,022 inventorsTop 5%
California: #13,468 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
Peter Westen has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in February 2025. Peter Westen ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Peter Westen in Mountain View, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12238455 Method and apparatus for initiating and managing chat sessions Justin Wood, Pierre J. De Filippis 2025-02-25
11562339 Processing a mobile payload Alan Paulin, Shawn Welch, Daniel Federman, Michael Gershunovsky, Ayokunle Omojola 2023-01-24 $249,162,000
D947209 Display screen with graphical user interface for a mobile device Alan Paulin, Shawn Welch, Daniel Federman, Michael Gershunovsky, Ayokunle Omojola 2022-03-29
10949829 Processing a mobile payload Alan Paulin, Shawn Welch, Daniel Federman, Michael Gershunovsky, Ayokunle Omojola 2021-03-16 $180,572,000
10681307 Method and apparatus for initiating and managing chat sessions Justin Wood, Pierre J. De Filippis 2020-06-09 $148,132,000
10623347 Method and apparatus for displaying information during an instant messaging session Gregory N. Christie, Stephen O. Lemay, Jens Alfke 2020-04-14 $120,660,000
10460324 Customized communication scheduler 2019-10-29 $104,801,000
10397470 Image capture using display device as light source Jean-Pierre Ciudad, Alexandre Aybes, Gregory N. Christie, Scott Forstall 2019-08-27 $97,750,000
10348654 Method and apparatus for displaying information during an instant messaging session Gregory N. Christie, Stephen O. Lemay, Jens Alfke 2019-07-09 $98,822,000
D837227 Display screen with graphical user interface for a mobile device Alan Paulin, Shawn Welch, Daniel Federman, Michael Gershunovsky, Ayokunle Omojola 2019-01-01
10116900 Method and apparatus for initiating and managing chat sessions Justin Wood, Pierre J. De Filippis 2018-10-30 $119,981,000
10032325 Formatted card signature generator Robert Andersen 2018-07-24 $205,096,000
9886689 Processing a mobile payload Alan Paulin, Shawn Welch, Daniel Federman, Michael Gershunovsky, Ayokunle Omojola 2018-02-06 $52,974,000
9881296 Processing a mobile payload Alan Paulin, Shawn Welch, Daniel Federman, Michael Gershunovsky, Ayokunle Omojola 2018-01-30 $19,380,000
9871963 Image capture using display device as light source Jean-Pierre Ciudad, Alexandre Aybes, Gregory N. Christie, Scott Forstall 2018-01-16 $88,298,000
9641480 Automated participant account determination for a communication session Angela Guzman Suarez, Jason A. Bernardo, Pierre de Filippis, Patrick L. Coffman 2017-05-02 $80,146,000
9413978 Image capture using display device as light source Jean-Pierre Ciudad, Alexandre Aybes, Gregory N. Christie, Scott Forstall 2016-08-09 $44,625,000
9300621 Communication history aggregation and presentation Angela Guzman Suarez, Jeremy Payne, Patrick L. Coffman 2016-03-29 $63,298,000
9165291 Payment transaction by email Robert Andersen, Jochen Bekmann, Brian Grassadonia, Daniele Perito 2015-10-20
9116221 Variable precision location sharing 2015-08-25 $80,070,000
9065919 Mixed media conferencing Bruce Arthur, Marcel van Os, Stephen O. Lemay, Gregory N. Christie 2015-06-23 $74,734,000
8970776 Image capture using display device as light source Jean-Pierre Ciudad, Alexandre Aybes, Gregory N. Christie, Scott Forstall 2015-03-03 $69,304,000
8843834 Method and apparatus for initiating and managing chat sessions Justin Wood, Pierre J. De Filippis 2014-09-23 $108,724,000
8724523 Mixed media conferencing Bruce Arthur, Marcel van Os, Stephen O. Lemay, Greg Christie 2014-05-13 $88,203,000
8554861 Method and apparatus for displaying information during an instant messaging session Gregory N. Christie, Stephen O. Lemay, Jens Alfke 2013-10-08 $62,809,000