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Thomas G. Salter — 40 Patents

Apple: 31 patents #997 of 18,612Top 6%
Microsoft: 8 patents #5,580 of 40,388Top 15%
Google: 1 patents #14,887 of 22,993Top 65%
Foster City, CA: #74 of 2,058 inventorsTop 4%
California: #11,486 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Thomas G. Salter has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in November 2025. Thomas G. Salter ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Thomas G. Salter in Foster City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 14 patents in 2025.peak 142014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 3 patents20172020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents20222023: 6 patents20232024: 10 patents20242025: 14 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12468383 Gaze and head pose interaction Anshu K. Chimalamarri, Bryce L. Schmidtchen, Devin W. Chalmers, Gregory Lutter 2025-11-11
12443272 Proactive actions based on audio and body movement Brian W. Temple, Devin W. Chalmers 2025-10-14
12444149 Content transformations based on reflective object recognition Yutaka Yokokawa, Devin W. Chalmers, Brian W. Temple, Raj Nair 2025-10-14
12436603 Audience engagement for placement of content in an HMD Anshu K. Chimalamarri, Brian W. Temple, Paul Ewers 2025-10-07
12367632 Method and device for surfacing accumulated strain information Matthew S. DeMers, Adeeti V. Ullal, Alexander G. Bruno, Daniel M. Trietsch, Ioana Negoita +2 more 2025-07-22
12367603 Localization based on detected spatial features Anna L. Brewer, Devin W. Chalmers 2025-07-22
12333378 Visual marker with user selectable appearance Mohamed Selim Ben Himane, Anselm Grundhoefer, Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, Jeffrey S. Norris, Paul Ewers +2 more 2025-06-17
12314631 Method and system for adjusting sound playback to account for speech detection Christopher T. Eubank, Devin W. Chalmers, Kirill Kalinichev, Rahul Nair 2025-05-27
12307152 Thumbnail for disambiguation in a visual search Thomas J. Moore, Alesha Unpingco, Anshu K. Chimalamarri, Ashwin K. Vijay, Christopher D. Fu +6 more 2025-05-20
12249033 User interfaces that include representations of the environment Yiqiang Nie, Giovanni Agnoli, Devin W. Chalmers, Allison W. Dryer, Giancarlo Yerkes 2025-03-11
12236819 Augmenting a physical writing surface Anshu K. Chimalamarri 2025-02-25
12213019 Locating content in an environment David W. Padgett, Christopher D. Fu, Scott G. Wade, Paul Ewers, Ioana Negoita +2 more 2025-01-28
12198277 Displaying a prioritized offscreen indicator Gregory Lutter, Rahul Nair, Devin W. Chalmers, Ioana Negoita 2025-01-14
12189736 Method and device for automatic authentication Rahul Nair 2025-01-07
12175009 Method and device for spatially designating private content Bart Trzynadlowski, Devin W. Chalmers, Anshu K. Chimalamarri, Gregory Lutter 2024-12-24 $240,476,000
12154329 Method and device for displaying a task list Devin W. Chalmers, Gregory Lutter, Bart Trzynadlowski, Rahul Nair 2024-11-26 $261,880,000
12112441 Content transformations based on reflective object recognition Yutaka Yokokawa, Devin W. Chalmers, Brian W. Temple, Rahul Nair 2024-10-08 $261,024,000
12094206 Method and device for visual augmentation of sporting events Brian W. Temple 2024-09-17 $230,032,000
12086945 Method and device for masked late-stage shift Ganghun Kim, Ioana Negoita, Devin W. Chalmers, Anshu K. Chimalamarri, Thomas J. Moore 2024-09-10 $233,602,000
12045392 Method and device for defining custom hand gestures Richard Ignatius Punsal Lozada 2024-07-23 $287,558,000
12026800 Blitting a display-locked object Gregory Lutter 2024-07-02 $221,119,000
12002140 Method and device for surfacing accumulated strain information Matthew S. DeMers, Adeeti V. Ullal, Alexander G. Bruno, Daniel M. Trietsch, Ioana Negoita +2 more 2024-06-04 $189,142,000
11915097 Visual marker with user selectable appearance Mohamed Selim Ben Himane, Anselm Grundhoefer, Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, Jeffrey S. Norris, Paul Ewers +2 more 2024-02-27 $182,166,000
11886625 Method and device for spatially designating private content Bart Trzynadlowski, Devin W. Chalmers, Anshu K. Chimalamarri, Gregory Lutter 2024-01-30 $160,707,000
11836872 Method and device for masked late-stage shift Ganghun Kim, Ioana Negoita, Devin W. Chalmers, Anshu K. Chimalamarri, Thomas J. Moore 2023-12-05 $213,405,000