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Thomas Burkholder — 10 Patents

Apple: 10 patents #3,225 of 18,612Top 20%
Vancouver, CA: #476 of 5,070 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Thomas Burkholder has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in June 2021. Thomas Burkholder ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Thomas Burkholder in Vancouver, BC, CA.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2010.peak 22010: 2 patents20102012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents20142016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents20182021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11025622 System and method for linking pre-installed software to a user account on an online store Pedraum R. Pardehpoosh, Craig M. Federighi, Daniel I. Feldman, Gregory T. Quirk, Jack R. Matthew +7 more 2021-06-01 $199,177,000
10158635 System and method for linking pre-installed software to a user account on an online store Pedraum R. Pardehpoosh, Craig M. Federighi, Daniel I. Feldman, Gregory T. Quirk, Jack R. Matthew +7 more 2018-12-18 $118,095,000
9582507 Network based purchase and distribution of media Patrice Gautier, Max Muller, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Dave Heller, Thomas Dowdy +1 more 2017-02-28 $61,357,000
9319406 System and method for linking pre-installed software to a user account on an online store Pedraum R. Pardehpoosh, Craig M. Federighi, Daniel I. Feldman, Gregory T. Quirk, Jack R. Matthew +7 more 2016-04-19 $45,541,000
9235840 Electronic transaction notification system and method Farman A. Syed, Daniel Emil Pu, Darci Groves, David E. Ralston, Roozbeh Ghaffari 2016-01-12 $83,071,000
8799166 Providing a gift of downloadable digital content David Neumann, Debra Ameerally 2014-08-05 $68,188,000
8489453 Digital media acquisition using credit 2013-07-16 $75,556,000
8112360 Digital media acquisition using credit 2012-02-07 $178,312,000
7797242 Method and system for network-based purchase and distribution of media Patrice Gautier, Max Muller, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Dave Heller, Thomas Dowdy +1 more 2010-09-14 $110,383,000
7657459 Techniques for acquiring a media season of digital media assets Alexandrea Anderson, Debbie Shimizu, Elizabeth d'Errico, Robert Kondrk, Patrice Gautier +1 more 2010-02-02 $141,526,000