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Robert D. Watson — 75 Patents

Apple: 55 patents #492 of 18,612Top 3%
SASandia: 14 patents #33 of 2,107Top 2%
SLSandia National Laboratory: 2 patents #33 of 229Top 15%
ARAtlantic Richfield: 1 patents #980 of 1,068Top 95%
Menlo Park, CA: #57 of 3,774 inventorsTop 2%
California: #3,914 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #25,505 of 4,157,543Top 1%
75 Patents All Time
Robert D. Watson has been granted 75 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in May 2025. Robert D. Watson ranks #25,505 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.61%). Patent records list Robert D. Watson in Menlo Park, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 75 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12309696 Low-power activation of accessory in sleep state David John Shaw, Ariane Cotte, Alon Paycher, Gregory Burns, Chandrahas Aralaguppe Chandramohan +3 more 2025-05-20
12256186 Wireless earphone Zachary C. Rich, Kurt Stiehl, Arun D. Chawan, Michael B. Howes, Jonathan S. Aase +11 more 2025-03-18
12229473 Changing companion communication device behavior based on status of wearable device David John Shaw, Arun D. Chawan, Matthew Gillette, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, Jeffrey C. Moore +7 more 2025-02-18
12185112 Temporary pairing for wireless devices Natalia A. Fornshell, Aarti Kumar, Ariane Cotte, Bob Bradley, Marc J. Krochmal +4 more 2024-12-31 $239,269,000
12150209 Identification and user notification of mismatched devices Michael J. Giles, Ariane Cotte, Sriram Hariharan, Sarang S. Ranade, David C. Graham 2024-11-19 $210,988,000
12015900 Swapping roles between untethered wirelessly connected devices Sriram Hariharan, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, Tad J. DREIER, Christopher S. WIEBE, Ashley Saulsbury +3 more 2024-06-18 $294,511,000
11997496 Temporary pairing for wireless devices Natalia A. Fornshell, Aarti Kumar, Ariane Cotte, Bob Bradley, Marc J. Krochmal +4 more 2024-05-28 $205,493,000
11985464 Wireless audio output devices David John Shaw, Ganesh Adkasthala GANAPATHI BATTA, Chandrahas Aralaguppe Chandramohan, Gregory Burns, Benjamin Huth BYER 2024-05-14 $205,807,000
11937037 Wireless earphone Zachary C. Rich, Kurt Stiehl, Arun D. Chawan, Michael B. Howes, Jonathan S. Aase +11 more 2024-03-19 $131,219,000
11800002 Audio data routing between multiple wirelessly connected devices Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, Anthony J. Guetta, David John Shaw, Craig P. Dooley, Chris Saari +11 more 2023-10-24 $205,836,000
11743819 Low-power activation of accessory in sleep state David John Shaw, Ariane Cotte, Alon Paycher, Gregory Burns, Chandrahas Aralaguppe Chandramohan +3 more 2023-08-29 $179,387,000
11706555 Setup management for ear tip selection fitting process Kang Sun, Sriram Hariharan, Sarang S. Ranade, Kevin Durfee 2023-07-18 $362,289,000
11683632 Automatic speech recognition triggering system Sorin V. Dusan, Aram Lindahl 2023-06-20 $341,239,000
11671809 Bluetooth profile fast connect Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa, Ariane Cotte, Craig P. Dooley, Duy N. Phan, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta +11 more 2023-06-06 $190,322,000
11630636 Changing companion communication device behavior based on status of wearable device David John Shaw, Arun D. Chawan, Matthew Gillette, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, Jeffrey C. Moore +7 more 2023-04-18 $504,807,000
11382017 Inter-device communication session continuity facilitated by a wireless audio output device Luciano M. Verger, Ajoy K. Singh, Albert R. Howard, Ariane Cotte, Christopher M. Garrido +11 more 2022-07-05 $213,612,000
11363363 Wireless earphone Zachary C. Rich, Kurt Stiehl, Arun D. Chawan, Michael B. Howes, Jonathan S. Aase +11 more 2022-06-14 $183,231,000
11337151 Low-power activation of accessory in sleep state David John Shaw, Ariane Cotte, Alon Paycher, Gregory Burns, Chandrahas Aralaguppe Chandramohan +3 more 2022-05-17 $199,476,000
11297453 Swapping roles between untethered wirelessly connected devices Sriram Hariharan, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, Tad J. DREIER, Christopher S. WIEBE, Ashley Saulsbury +3 more 2022-04-05 $244,930,000
11109208 Bluetooth profile fast connect Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa, Ariane Cotte, Craig P. Dooley, Duy N. Phan, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta +11 more 2021-08-31 $281,034,000
11102568 Automatic speech recognition triggering system Sorin V. Dusan, Aram Lindahl 2021-08-24 $193,607,000
11095967 Wireless audio output devices David John Shaw, Ganesh Adkasthala GANAPATHI BATTA, Chandrahas Aralaguppe Chandramohan, Gregory Burns, Benjamin Huth BYER 2021-08-17 $294,809,000
11051105 Locating wireless devices Sorin V. Dusan, Raghunandan K. Pai, Scott Lopatin, Tommy Rochette, Navin Bindiganavile Suparna +3 more 2021-06-29 $366,278,000
11026083 Identification and user notification of mismatched devices Michael J. Giles, Ariane Cotte, Sriram Hariharan, Sarang S. Ranade, David C. Graham 2021-06-01 $199,177,000
10970030 Changing companion communication device behavior based on status of wearable device David John Shaw, Arun D. Chawan, Matthew Gillette, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, Jeffrey C. Moore +7 more 2021-04-06 $275,793,000