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William A. Counts — 21 Patents

Apple: 20 patents #1,639 of 18,612Top 9%
QIQuestek Innovations: 1 patents #21 of 28Top 75%
Sunnyvale, CA: #1,210 of 14,302 inventorsTop 9%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
William A. Counts has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in January 2025. William A. Counts ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list William A. Counts in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12195379 Forming and bonding of glass components for portable electronic devices Andrew J. Meschke, Thomas Johannessen 2025-01-14
12189439 Multi-part device enclosure Mikael Silvanto, Simon J. Trivett, Matthew Theobald, Dinesh C. Mathew, Simon R. Lancaster-Larocque +13 more 2025-01-07
12114453 Core shell with various filler materials for enhanced thermal conductivity Andrew W. Meschke, Lei Gao, Abhijeet Misra, Alexander W. Williams, Hoishun Li +3 more 2024-10-08 $261,024,000
11898808 Support plate thin cladding Robert F. Meyer, Michael D. Quinones, Jason P. Shannon, David A. Pakula 2024-02-13 $152,277,000
11550369 Multi-part device enclosure Mikael Silvanto, Simon J. Trivett, Matthew Theobald, Dinesh C. Mathew, Simon R. Lancaster-Larocque +13 more 2023-01-10 $215,259,000
11418638 Electronic device having a composite structure Abhijeet Misra, Steven J. Osborne, Ian A. Spraggs, Marwan Rammah 2022-08-16 $228,519,000
11345121 Coloring of metallic materials coated with aluminum Yoshihiko Yokoyama, Naoto Matsuyuki, James A. Wright, Brian M. Gable, Eric W. Hamann 2022-05-31 $175,196,000
11345980 Recycled aluminum alloys from manufacturing scrap with cosmetic appeal Brian M. Gable, Herng-Jeng Jou, Weiming Huang, Graeme William Paul, Eric W. Hamann +8 more 2022-05-31 $175,196,000
11207795 Mold materials for formed ceramic Jeffrey Lee Mattlin, Abhijeet Misra, Herng-Jeng Jou, James A. Wright, James A. Yurko +2 more 2021-12-28 $336,423,000
11111594 Processes to reduce interfacial enrichment of alloying elements under anodic oxide films and improve anodized appearance of heat treatable alloys James A. Curran, Eric W. Hamann 2021-09-07 $276,522,000
10915151 Multi-part device enclosure Mikael Silvanto, Simon J. Trivett, Matthew Theobald, Dinesh C. Mathew, Simon R. Lancaster-Larocque +13 more 2021-02-09 $402,075,000
10856443 Cladded metal structures for dissipation of heat in a portable electronic device Abhijeet Misra, Nagarajan Kalyanasundaram, James A. Yurko 2020-12-01 $185,955,000
10787014 Thermally conductive structure for dissipating heat in a portable electronic device Lee E. Hooton, Marwan Rammah, James A. Bertin, Stoyan P. Hristov 2020-09-29 $216,518,000
10711363 Anodic oxide based composite coatings of augmented thermal expansivity to eliminate thermally induced crazing James A. Curran, Zechariah D. Feinberg 2020-07-14 $127,404,000
10616387 Portable electronic device Bryan D. Keen, Sina Bigdeli, Sawyer I. Cohen, Lucy E. Browning, Devon A. Monaco +2 more 2020-04-07 $84,122,000
10597757 Ductile high-temperature molybdenum-based alloys Jiadong Gong, David R. Snyder, Jason T. Sebastian, Abhijeet Misra, James A. Wright 2020-03-24
10447834 Electronic device having a composite structure Abhijeet Misra, Steven J. Osborne, Ian A. Spraggs, Marwan Rammah 2019-10-15 $104,842,000
10174436 Process for enhanced corrosion protection of anodized aluminum James A. Curran, Aaron D. Paterson 2019-01-08 $83,213,000
9970080 Micro-alloying to mitigate the slight discoloration resulting from entrained metal in anodized aluminum surface finishes James A. Curran, Abhijeet Misra 2018-05-15 $62,463,000
9869623 Process for evaluation of delamination-resistance of hard coatings on metal substrates Eric W. Hamann, James A. Curran 2018-01-16 $88,298,000
9359686 Processes to reduce interfacial enrichment of alloying elements under anodic oxide films and improve anodized appearance of heat treatable alloys James A. Curran, Eric W. Hamann 2016-06-07 $71,315,000