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Wendell B. Sander — 107 Patents

Apple: 47 patents #597 of 18,612Top 4%
TRTropian: 22 patents #2 of 22Top 10%
CHChipscale: 8 patents #1 of 7Top 15%
ESEchelon Systems: 8 patents #1 of 15Top 7%
Panasonic: 6 patents #4,450 of 21,108Top 25%
Micron: 5 patents #2,565 of 6,374Top 45%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 4 patents #6,367 of 21,551Top 30%
ECEchelon: 4 patents #16 of 75Top 25%
ASAmalfi Semiconductor: 2 patents #4 of 14Top 30%
Cupertino, CA: #76 of 6,989 inventorsTop 2%
California: #1,988 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #12,671 of 4,157,543Top 1%
107 Patents All Time
Wendell B. Sander has been granted 107 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in April 2020. Wendell B. Sander ranks #12,671 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.30%). Patent records list Wendell B. Sander in Cupertino, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 107 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10637192 Dual orientation connector with external contacts Albert J. Golko, Mathias Schmidt, Eric S. Jol, Jahan Minoo, Ian A. Spraggs +4 more 2020-04-28 $120,851,000
10090619 Dual orientation connector with external contacts Albert J. Golko, Mathias Schmidt, Eric S. Jol, Jahan Minoo, Ian A. Spraggs +4 more 2018-10-02 $93,373,000
9871319 Dual orientation connector with external contacts Albert J. Golko, Mathias Schmidt, Eric S. Jol, Jahan Minoo, Ian A. Spraggs +4 more 2018-01-16 $88,298,000
9680980 Electronic device accessory Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Timothy M. Johnson, Brian Sander, Brian Conner +1 more 2017-06-13 $53,900,000
9478905 Dual orientation connector with external contacts Albert J. Golko, Mathias Schmidt, Eric S. Jol, Jahan Minoo, Ian A. Spraggs +4 more 2016-10-25 $74,258,000
9237401 Electronic devices with adjustable bias impedances and adjustable bias voltages for accessories Yash Modi, Brian Sander, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Jahan Minoo 2016-01-12 $83,071,000
9231435 Methods and apparatuses for operating devices with solar power Daniel Adam Warren, Aaron Leiba 2016-01-05 $62,283,000
9020162 Electronic device and external equipment with digital noise cancellation and digital audio path Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Brian Sander, David Tupman, Barry Corlett 2015-04-28 $79,667,000
8998632 Dual orientation connector with external contacts Albert J. Golko, Mathias Schmidt, Eric S. Jol, Jahan Minoo, Ian A. Spraggs +4 more 2015-04-07 $95,745,000
8995689 Electronic device circuitry for communicating with accessories Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Timothy M. Johnson, Brian Sander, Brian Conner +1 more 2015-03-31 $96,962,000
8983093 Electronic device circuitry for communicating with accessories Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Timothy M. Johnson, Brian Sander, Brian Conner +1 more 2015-03-17 $91,673,000
8983083 Electronic device and headset with speaker seal evaluation capabilities Victor Tiscareno, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Christopher Todd Beauchamp 2015-03-17 $91,673,000
8976976 Accessory adapter with user input interface Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Timothy M. Johnson, Brian Sander, Brian Conner +1 more 2015-03-10 $87,927,000
8891790 Methods for using an accessory to communicate with an electronic device Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Timothy M. Johnson, Brian Sander, Brian Conner +1 more 2014-11-18 $78,848,000
8750527 Electronic device and headset with speaker seal evaluation capabilities Victor Tiscareno, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Christopher Todd Beauchamp 2014-06-10 $68,434,000
8600080 Methods for communicating with electronic device accessories Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Timothy M. Johnson, Brian Sander, Brian Conner +1 more 2013-12-03 $83,608,000
8535075 Electronic device with circuitry to detect the insertion orientation of a plug connector Albert J. Golko, Mathias Schmidt, Eric S. Jol, Jahan Minoc, Ian A. Spraggs +4 more 2013-09-17 $73,460,000
8493755 Power supply with zero power consumption capability Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Stanley Rabu, Jahan Minoo, Nicholas A. Sims 2013-07-23 $65,903,000
8457157 Digital communications system with variable-bandwidth traffic channels Barry Corlett, David Tupman, Brian Sander, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Andrew P. Bright +1 more 2013-06-04 $97,267,000
8416961 Detecting the repositioning of an earphone using a microphone and associated action Jae-Han Lee 2013-04-09 $75,106,000
8401200 Electronic device and headset with speaker seal evaluation capabilities Victor Tiscareno, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Christopher Todd Beauchamp 2013-03-19 $67,108,000
8396196 Transfer of multiple microphone signals to an audio host device David Tupman 2013-03-12 $106,410,000
8369534 Mode switching noise cancellation for microphone-speaker combinations used in two way audio communications Timothy M. Johnson, Lawrence F. Heyl, Douglas M. Farrar 2013-02-05 $88,003,000
8330061 Compact input device Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Jan Moolsintong, Joseph Fisher, Erturk Kocalar 2012-12-11 $83,814,000
8254592 Electronic device and external equipment with configurable audio path circuitry Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Douglas M. Farrar, Brian Sander 2012-08-28 $72,244,000