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Stephen Sheeler — 17 Patents

Apple: 17 patents #1,950 of 18,612Top 15%
Santa Monica, CA: #268 of 3,628 inventorsTop 8%
California: #35,467 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Stephen Sheeler has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in October 2022. Stephen Sheeler ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Stephen Sheeler in Santa Monica, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2012.peak 32008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents2017: 2 patents20172019: 1 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11481949 Depth of field for a camera in a media-editing application Gregory Niles, Gregory B. Abbas, Guido Hucking, Sidhartha Deb 2022-10-25 $262,914,000
11178356 Media message creation with automatic titling David Robert Black, Andrew L. Harding, Joseph Weil, James Brasure, Joash S. Berkeley +6 more 2021-11-16 $241,630,000
10803649 Depth of field for a camera in a media-editing application Gregory Niles, Gregory B. Abbas, Guido Hucking, Sidhartha Deb 2020-10-13 $241,153,000
10560656 Media message creation with automatic titling Joseph Weil, Andrew L. Harding, David Robert Black, James Brasure, Joash S. Berkeley +6 more 2020-02-11 $152,172,000
10332300 Depth of field for a camera in a media-editing application Sidhartha Deb, Gregory B. Abbas, Gregory Niles, Guido Hucking 2019-06-25 $85,297,000
D791159 Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface Nils Angquist, Stephen A. Bayes, Jordan P. McCommons, Brian Meaney, Robin Mikawa +4 more 2017-07-04
9619917 Depth of field for a camera in a media-editing application Sidhartha Deb, Gregory B. Abbas, Gregory Niles, Guido Hucking 2017-04-11 $57,299,000
8887074 Rigging parameters to create effects and animation Gregory Niles, Tom Langmacher 2014-11-11 $85,451,000
8542238 User interface for controlling animation of an object Gregory Niles, Guido Hucking 2013-09-24 $96,071,000
8502817 Directing camera behavior in 3-D imaging system Sidhartha Deb, Gregory Niles, Guido Hucking 2013-08-06 $77,314,000
8314799 Enhanced motion behavior framework Jean-Francois Pelletier, Gregory Niles 2012-11-20 $172,777,000
8253747 User interface for controlling animation of an object Gregory Niles, Guido Hucking 2012-08-28 $72,244,000
8089479 Directing camera behavior in 3-D imaging system Sidhartha Deb, Gregory Niles, Guido Hucking 2012-01-03 $172,634,000
7990398 Matching movement behavior in motion graphics Jean-Francois Pelletier, Gregory Niles, William Stein 2011-08-02 $120,903,000
7884834 In-context paint stroke characteristic adjustment Jean-Pierre M. Mouilleseaux, Gregory Niles 2011-02-08 $159,068,000
7518611 Extensible library for storing objects of different types Martin Boyd 2009-04-14 $143,497,000
7411590 Multimedia file format Martin Boyd 2008-08-12 $350,174,000