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Samuel C. Cates — 4 Patents

Apple: 3 patents #7,530 of 18,612Top 45%
Mountain View, CA: #4,399 of 11,022 inventorsTop 40%
California: #126,026 of 386,348 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Samuel C. Cates has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in December 2025. Samuel C. Cates ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Samuel C. Cates in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2014.peak 12014: 1 patents20142020: 1 patents20202024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12503027 Cooler for a vehicle Matthew MCCORMICK, Vishnu JAYAMOHAN, Andrew MOLNAR 2025-12-23
12002010 Event extraction systems and methods Sofiane Toudji, Erik M. Berget, Scott Adler 2024-06-04 $189,142,000
10643185 Suggested locations for calendar events Scott Adler, Daniel C. Gross, Lili Cao, Hyo Jeong Shin 2020-05-05 $109,977,000
8869050 Showing calendar events not visible on screen Raymond Sepulveda, Viktor Miladinov, Patrick L. Coffman, Lala Dutta 2014-10-21 $78,430,000