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Steve Ko — 40 Patents

Apple: 39 patents #763 of 18,612Top 5%
HP: 1 patents #11,359 of 16,619Top 70%
San Francisco, CA: #691 of 26,999 inventorsTop 3%
California: #11,486 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Steve Ko has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in December 2024. Steve Ko ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Steve Ko in San Francisco, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12182146 Highlighting icons for search results Maxym I. Runov, Bas Ording, Gregory N. Christie, Kevin Tiene 2024-12-31 $239,269,000
12028421 Methods and systems for fast account setup Michael McDougall, John William Scalo, Patrick L. Coffman, Aaron Matthew Everitt 2024-07-02 $221,119,000
11776190 Techniques for managing an avatar on a lock screen Raymond Sepulveda, Jason D. Rickwald, Nicolas V. Scapel, Kevin N. Armstrong, Amaury Balliet +5 more 2023-10-03 $152,687,000
11741210 Proximity unlock and lock operations for electronic devices Robert R. Ulrich, Jean-Pierre Cuidad, Kevin N. Armstrong, Andreas W. Wendker, Craig M. Federighi 2023-08-29 $179,387,000
11531468 System and method for managing storage space Jean-Pierre Ciudad, Kazuhisa Yanagihara 2022-12-20 $242,970,000
11500890 Highlighting icons for search results Maxym I. Runov, Bas Ording, Gregory N. Christie, Kevin Tiene 2022-11-15 $272,708,000
11055392 Proximity unlock and lock operations for electronic devices Robert R. Ulrich, Jean-Pierre Cuidad, Kevin N. Armstrong, Andreas W. Wendker, Craig M. Federighi 2021-07-06 $305,052,000
10635683 Highlighting items for search results Maxym I. Runov, Bas Ording, Gregory N. Christie, Kevin Tiene 2020-04-28 $120,851,000
10546113 Proximity unlock and lock operations for electronic devices Robert R. Ulrich, Jean-Pierre Cuidad, Kevin N. Armstrong, Andreas W. Wendker, Craig M. Federighi 2020-01-28 $144,266,000
10395068 User account for system protection or recovery Andrew T. Belk, Jack R. Matthew, William E. Stevenson, Craig M. Federighi, Patrick L. Coffman 2019-08-27 $97,750,000
10341460 Methods and systems for fast account setup Michael McDougall, John William Scalo, Patrick L. Coffman, Aaron Matthew Everitt 2019-07-02 $114,348,000
10055567 Proximity unlock and lock operations for electronic devices Robert R. Ulrich, Jean-Pierre Cuidad, Kevin N. Armstrong, Andreas W. Wendker, Craig M. Federighi 2018-08-21 $77,719,000
10031712 System and method for display mirroring Geoffrey Stahl, Ian C. Hendry, Kenneth C. Dyke, Patrick L. Coffman, Nathaniel Begeman 2018-07-24 $82,743,000
9801120 Client-initiated tethering for electronic devices Robert Ulrich, Patrick L. Coffman, Jeremiah D. Shaw 2017-10-24 $92,448,000
9659069 Highlighting items for search results Maxym I. Runov, Bas Ording, Gregory N. Christie, Kevin Tiene 2017-05-23 $78,322,000
9582293 System and method of producing user interface information messages 2017-02-28 $61,357,000
9552187 System and method for display mirroring Geoffrey Stahl, Ian C. Hendry, Kenneth C. Dyke, Patrick L. Coffman, Nathaniel Begeman 2017-01-24 $88,784,000
9207903 System and method for display mirroring Geoffrey Stahl, Ian C. Hendry, Kenneth C. Dyke, Patrick L. Coffman, Nathaniel Begeman 2015-12-08 $55,372,000
9160816 Methods and systems for fast account setup Michael McDougall, John William Scalo, Patrick L. Coffman, Aaron Matthew Everitt 2015-10-13 $69,675,000
9092383 Portable media player as a remote control Stephen O. Lemay 2015-07-28 $68,182,000
8738826 System and method for display mirroring Geoffrey Stahl, Ian C. Hendry, Kenneth C. Dyke, Patrick L. Coffman, Nathaniel Begeman 2014-05-27 $56,737,000
8677274 Highlighting items for search results Maxym I. Runov, Bas Ording, Gregory N. Christie, Kevin Tiene 2014-03-18 $81,295,000
8626930 Multimedia content filtering Giovanni Donelli, Jerome R. Bellegarda, John William Scalo 2014-01-07 $82,147,000
8607162 Searching for commands and other elements of a user interface Joshua Matthew Williams, Tristan Harris, Patrick L. Coffman, Giulia P. Pagallo, Christina E. Warren +1 more 2013-12-10 $112,403,000
8504733 Subtree for an aggregation system Subramoniam N. Iyer, Praveen Yalagandula, Vanish Talwar, Dejan S. Milojicic 2013-08-06 $30,407,000