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Stephen C. Terry — 46 Patents

Apple: 21 patents #1,550 of 18,612Top 9%
TITexas Instruments: 12 patents #1,161 of 12,488Top 10%
ISIc Sensors: 5 patents #2 of 9Top 25%
SMSilicon Microstructures: 4 patents #3 of 16Top 20%
MTMicrosensor Technology: 1 patents #3 of 8Top 40%
ASAgere Systems: 1 patents #984 of 1,849Top 55%
TDTransensory Devices: 1 patents #4 of 5Top 80%
San Jose, CA: #1,134 of 32,062 inventorsTop 4%
California: #9,249 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #62,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
46 Patents All Time
Stephen C. Terry has been granted 46 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in November 2025. Stephen C. Terry ranks #62,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Stephen C. Terry in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2021.peak 81984: 2 patents19841988: 1 patents1991: 1 patents19911992: 1 patents1993: 2 patents19931995: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062010: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112014: 3 patents2016: 3 patents20162018: 2 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 2 patents2021: 8 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 6 patents20232024: 3 patents2025: 5 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 46 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12483066 Ultra low power object detection Bing Sun, Ye Li, Zaid A. AbuKhalaf 2025-11-25
12456886 Methods and circuitry for mitigating saturation in wireless power systems Adam Schwartz, Alireza Safaee, Zhiyuan Hu 2025-10-28
12401232 Wireless power systems with frequency-shift-keying communications Zaid A. AbuKhalaf 2025-08-26
12374935 Methods and circuitry for mitigating saturation in wireless power systems Adam Schwartz, Alireza Safaee, Zhiyuan Hu 2025-07-29
12230980 Wireless power transfer with integrated communications Ye Li, Gianpaolo Lisi, Bingyao Sun, Liang Chen, Gaurav Kalra +1 more 2025-02-18
12184111 Frequency management for wireless power transfer Ye Li, Antoin Russell, Adam Schwartz, Sumant Ranganathan, Gianpaolo Lisi 2024-12-31 $239,269,000
12003121 Detection of object location and orientation on a wireless charge mat Chad A. Bossetti, Christopher S. Graham, David W. Ritter, Todd K. Moyer, Steven G. Herbst +3 more 2024-06-04 $189,142,000
11984737 Methods and circuitry for mitigating saturation in wireless power systems Adam Schwartz, Alireza Safaee, Zhiyuan Hu 2024-05-14 $205,807,000
11837906 Inductively coupled charger Paul Brohlin 2023-12-05 $30,679,000
11764621 Wireless power transfer with integrated communications Yongxuan Hu, Nileshbhai J. Shah, Jose V Santos Martinez 2023-09-19 $175,852,000
11756719 Wireless power system Narendra Singh Mehta, Rohan Dayal 2023-09-12 $153,019,000
11735962 Methods and circuitry for mitigating saturation in wireless power systems Adam Schwartz, Alireza Safaee, Zhiyuan Hu 2023-08-22 $159,607,000
11677255 Frequency management for wireless power transfer Ye Li, Antoin Russell, Adam Schwartz, Sumant Ranganathan, Gianpaolo Lisi 2023-06-13 $237,724,000
11569673 Charge control circuitry in a wireless power receiver Paul Brohlin, Deepak Mohanlal Khanchandani 2023-01-31 $26,595,000
11316383 Wireless power systems with foreign object detection 2022-04-26 $199,478,000
11183864 Multimode battery charging Bin Gu, Yongxuan Hu, Di Zhao, Ruchi J. Parikh, Michael Black +1 more 2021-11-23 $239,501,000
11159065 Detection of object location and orientation on a wireless charge mat Chad A. Bossetti, Christopher S. Graham, David W. Ritter, Todd K. Moyer, Steven G. Herbst +3 more 2021-10-26 $273,635,000
11133696 Wireless power system Narendra Singh Mehta, Rohan Dayal 2021-09-28 $352,851,000
11095162 Wireless power system with power control Weiyun Chen 2021-08-17 $294,809,000
10998776 Wireless power system with in-band communications Weiyun Chen 2021-05-04 $316,122,000
10992177 Inductively coupled charger Paul Brohlin 2021-04-27 $48,370,000
10978921 Wireless power system with efficiency prediction Ge Wang, Wynand Malan, Zachary Strachan Harris 2021-04-13 $234,670,000
10938307 Input power limited switching regulator Yongxuan Hu, Weiyun Chen, Chi Kin Ho, Norah E. Nakibuuka 2021-03-02 $266,805,000
10682498 Light shields for catheter sensors Holger Doering, Justin Gaynor, Omar Abed, Fernando Alfaro 2020-06-16
10641672 Manufacturing catheter sensors Holger Doering, Justin Gaynor, Omar Abed, Fernando Alfaro 2020-05-05