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Tom Tate — 3 Patents

Apple: 2 patents #9,294 of 18,612Top 50%
SISeats Incorporated: 1 patents #21 of 37Top 60%
San Jose, CA: #14,697 of 32,062 inventorsTop 50%
California: #150,760 of 386,348 inventorsTop 40%
Overall (All Time): #1,328,092 of 4,157,543Top 35%
3 Patents All Time
Tom Tate has been granted 3 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in March 2019. Tom Tate ranks #1,328,092 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 31.9%). Patent records list Tom Tate in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2002.peak 12002: 1 patents20022014: 1 patents20142019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–3 of 3 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10228720 Internal components of a portable computing device Brett W. Degner, Christiaan A. Ligtenberg, Ron A. Hopkinson, Patrick Kessler, Bradley J. Hamel +13 more 2019-03-12 $142,807,000
8897002 Internal components of a portable computing device Brett W. Degner, Christiaan A. Ligtenberg, Ron A. Hopkinson, Patrick Kessler, Bradley J. Hamel +13 more 2014-11-25 $148,832,000
6361117 Elastic suspension bucket seat 2002-03-26