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William D. Burke — 5 Patents

Apple: 2 patents #9,294 of 18,612Top 50%
MIT: 1 patents #4,386 of 9,367Top 50%
UCUnion Carbide: 1 patents #697 of 1,402Top 50%
Beaverton, OR: #976 of 3,140 inventorsTop 35%
Oregon: #7,391 of 28,073 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
William D. Burke has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in April 2024. William D. Burke ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list William D. Burke in Beaverton, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2019.peak 21989: 1 patents19892007: 1 patents20072019: 2 patents20192024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11948704 Processes, systems and devices for metal filling of high temperature superconductor cables Amanda HUBBARD, James IRBY, Rui VIEIRA, William BECK, Richard Murray +2 more 2024-04-02 $59,690,000
10443145 Protecting anodized surfaces during manufacturing processes James A. Curran, Aaron D. Paterson 2019-10-15 $104,842,000
10351966 Process for cleaning anodic oxide pore structures James A. Curran 2019-07-16 $90,112,000
7207513 Device and method for comminuting materials Lynn P. Tessier, Russell Graham, James B. Graham, Fan Jiang 2007-04-24
4805556 Reactor system and method for forming uniformly large-diameter polycrystalline rods by the pyrolysis of silane David W. Hagan, Thomas R. Thoman, McRea B. Willmert 1989-02-21 $5,633,000