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Richard Ford — 7 Patents

Apple: 5 patents #5,490 of 18,612Top 30%
Arlington, VA: #242 of 1,838 inventorsTop 15%
Virginia: #4,481 of 34,511 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Richard Ford has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in March 2015. Richard Ford ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Richard Ford in Arlington, VA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2001.peak 21998: 1 patents19982001: 2 patents20012003: 1 patents20032006: 1 patents20062009: 1 patents20092015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8970653 Video conference control system and method Jonathan Bowen, William Todd Clayton 2015-03-03
7533120 Method and apparatus for configuring a computer Yan Arrouye, John Comiskey, Chris Nebel, Michel Guittet, Alice Li 2009-05-12 $206,334,000
7065533 Method and apparatus for configuring a computer Yan Arrouye, John Comiskey, Chris Nebel, Michel Guittet, Alice Li 2006-06-20 $146,096,000
6578042 Method and apparatus for configuring a computer using scripting plug-in Yan Arrouye, John Comiskey, Christopher Nebel, Michel Guittet, Alice Li 2003-06-10 $18,665,000
6256635 Method and apparatus for configuring a computer using scripting Yan Arrouye, John Comiskey, Chris Nebel, Michel Guittet, Alice Li 2001-07-03 $30,793,000
6215992 Universal dictation input apparatus and method Dennis S. Howell, Donald E. Latson, Jason Gaines, Franklin B. Parks, Robert Ross +1 more 2001-04-10
5724506 Replaceable and extensible connection dialog component of a network component system Michael A. Cleron, John Evans, Stephen Fisher, Patrick A. Holleran, Richard Donnelly +1 more 1998-03-03 $12,578,000