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Steven P. Hotelling — 210 Patents

Apple: 198 patents #88 of 18,612Top 1%
TLThomson Licensing: 7 patents #357 of 2,575Top 15%
GYGyration: 4 patents #1 of 8Top 15%
Santa Cruz, CA: #3 of 1,911 inventorsTop 1%
California: #499 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #3,027 of 4,157,543Top 1%
210 Patents All Time
Steven P. Hotelling has been granted 210 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in March 2025. Steven P. Hotelling ranks #3,027 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.07%). Patent records list Steven P. Hotelling in Santa Cruz, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 26 patents in 2016.peak 261992: 1 patents19921997: 2 patents1998: 1 patents2005: 1 patents20052006: 3 patents2008: 4 patents2009: 3 patents20092010: 10 patents2011: 5 patents2012: 5 patents20122013: 14 patents2014: 16 patents2015: 22 patents20152016: 26 patents2017: 22 patents2018: 25 patents20182019: 14 patents2020: 13 patents2021: 11 patents20212022: 4 patents2023: 5 patents2024: 2 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 210 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12254147 Electronic device display with array of discrete light-emitting diodes Wei Chen, John Z. Zhong, William C. Athas, Wei H. Yao 2025-03-18
11989394 Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating user interfaces based on fingerprint sensor inputs Benjamin J. Pope, Daniel W. Jarvis, Nicholas Merz, Scott A. Myers, Michael A. Cretella +14 more 2024-05-21 $215,899,000
11868455 Biometric authentication techniques Deepti S. Prakash, Lucia E. Ballard, Jerrold V. Hauck, Feng Tang, Etai Littwin +18 more 2024-01-09 $219,732,000
11853518 Multipoint touch surface controller Christoph H. Krah, Brian Q. Huppi 2023-12-26 $179,025,000
11775109 Touch detection using multiple simultaneous stimulation signals Christoph H. Krah, Sean Erik O'Connor, Wayne Carl Westerman 2023-10-03 $152,687,000
11747950 Force determination based on capacitive sensing Jonah A. Harley, Peter W. Richards, Brian Q. Huppi, Omar S. Leung, Dhaval N. Shah +15 more 2023-09-05 $187,157,000
11675454 Simultaneous sensing arrangement John Greer Elias, Kapil V. Sakariya 2023-06-13 $237,724,000
11669178 Electronic device display with array of discrete light-emitting diodes Wei Chen, John Z. Zhong, William C. Athas, Wei H. Yao 2023-06-06 $190,322,000
11379060 Wide touchpad on a portable computer Chris Ligtenberg, Duncan Robert Kerr, Bartley K. Andre, Joshua A. Strickon, Brian Q. Huppi +3 more 2022-07-05 $213,612,000
11360509 Electronic device having display and surrounding touch sensitive surfaces for user interface and control Nicholas V. King, Duncan Robert Kerr, Paul M. Herbst 2022-06-14 $183,231,000
11353652 Electronic devices having displays with curved surfaces and image transport layers Michael B. Wittenberg, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Tyler R. Kakuda, Christopher D. Prest, Marwan Rammah +6 more 2022-06-07 $209,841,000
11275405 Multi-functional hand-held device 2022-03-15 $265,207,000
11209961 Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating user interfaces based on fingerprint sensor inputs Benjamin J. Pope, Daniel W. Jarvis, Nicholas Merz, Scott A. Myers, Michael A. Cretella +14 more 2021-12-28 $336,423,000
11151235 Biometric authentication techniques Deepti S. Prakash, Lucia E. Ballard, Jerrold V. Hauck, Feng Tang, Etai Littwin +19 more 2021-10-19 $254,245,000
11112904 Double-sided touch-sensitive panel with shield and drive combined layer Brian R. Land 2021-09-07 $276,522,000
11106308 Touch detection using multiple simultaneous stimulation signals Christoph H. Krah, Sean Erik O'Connor, Wayne Carl Westerman 2021-08-31 $281,034,000
11016616 Multi-domain touch sensing with touch and display circuitry operable in guarded power domain Christian M. Sauer, Christoph H. Krah, Martin P. Grunthaner 2021-05-25 $283,400,000
11009390 Methods and systems for modulation and demodulation of optical signals Marcelo Lamego 2021-05-18 $223,963,000
10949020 Fingerprint-assisted force estimation Duncan Robert Kerr 2021-03-16 $260,311,000
10929515 Biometric authentication techniques Deepti S. Prakash, Lucia E. Ballard, Jerrold V. Hauck, Feng Tang, Etai Littwin +18 more 2021-02-23 $266,795,000
10921941 Electronic device having display and surrounding touch sensitive surfaces for user interface and control Nicholas V. King, Duncan Robert Kerr, Paul M. Herbst 2021-02-16 $232,802,000
10915207 Multipoint touch surface controller Christoph H. Krah, Brian Q. Huppi 2021-02-09 $402,075,000
10890953 Capacitance sensing electrode with integrated I/O mechanism 2021-01-12 $398,981,000
10871850 Simultaneous sensing arrangement John Greer Elias, Kapil V. Sakariya 2020-12-22 $332,226,000
10872581 Electronic devices with orientation compensation Jiaying Wu, Cheng Chen, Hung A. Pham, Lu Zhang, Paul V. Johnson +2 more 2020-12-22 $332,226,000