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William D. Lindmeier — 24 Patents

Apple: 18 patents #1,823 of 18,612Top 10%
Nokia Technologies Oy: 3 patents #820 of 3,242Top 30%
Google: 3 patents #8,096 of 22,993Top 40%
San Francisco, CA: #1,493 of 26,999 inventorsTop 6%
California: #23,266 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
William D. Lindmeier has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2015 and the most recent in December 2025. William D. Lindmeier ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list William D. Lindmeier in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2015 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2025.peak 92015: 1 patents20152017: 1 patents20172019: 5 patents20192020: 2 patents20202022: 1 patents20222023: 2 patents20232024: 3 patents20242025: 9 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12506860 Changing tinting levels of one or more displays Devin W. CHALMERS, Raj Nair, Manuel Christian Clement, Luis R. Deliz Centeno, Giancarlo Yerkes +2 more 2025-12-23
12437494 Systems and methods of creating and editing virtual objects using voxels Guillaume COUCHE, Jonny YEO, Tony Kobayashi 2025-10-07
12393330 Systems, methods and user interfaces for object tracing Laura Sugden 2025-08-19
12307580 Methods for manipulating objects in an environment Matan Stauber, Stephen O. Lemay, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Madeleine S. Cordier, Kristi E. BAUERLY +1 more 2025-05-20
12287921 Methods for manipulating a virtual object Tony Kobayashi, Alexis H. Palangie, Carmine Elvezio, Matthew J. Sundstrom 2025-04-29
12254142 Variable friction and multi-texture mouse Bart K. Andre, Brian T. Gleeson, Kristi E. Bauerly, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Geng Luo +6 more 2025-03-18
12206980 Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for capturing and recording media in multiple modes Matthew I. Brown, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Lukas Robert Tom Girling 2025-01-21
12197654 Input device with adaptive grip orientation Bart K. Andre, Brian T. Gleeson, Kristi E. Bauerly, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Geng Luo +9 more 2025-01-14
12189848 Managing devices having additive displays Devin W. CHALMERS, Gregory Lutter, Jonathan C. Moisant-Thompson, Rahul Nair 2025-01-07
12079458 Image data for enhanced user interactions Marek A. Bereza, Adi Berenson, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Lukas Robert Tom Girling, Mark K. Hauenstein +3 more 2024-09-03 $189,878,000
12001753 Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interactions with a headphone case Darius A. Satongar, Per Haakan Linus Persson 2024-06-04 $189,142,000
11930420 Handheld electronic devices with contextual input-output capabilities Per Haakan Linus Persson, Seung Wook Kim, Paul G. Puskarich, Peter C. Tsoi 2024-03-12 $247,967,000
11856313 Combining video streams having different information-bearing levels Devin W. Chalmers 2023-12-26 $179,025,000
11750914 Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for capturing and recording media in multiple modes Matthew I. Brown, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein 2023-09-05 $187,157,000
11375138 Combining video streams having different information-bearing levels Devin W. Chalmers 2022-06-28 $172,717,000
10848661 Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for capturing and recording media in multiple modes Matthew I. Brown, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Lukas Robert Tom Girling 2020-11-24 $169,360,000
10547776 Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for capturing and recording media in multiple modes Matthew I. Brown, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Lukas Robert Tom Girling 2020-01-28 $144,266,000
10482359 Systems and methods for removing non-stationary objects from imagery Alejandro Kauffmann, Ashley Ma, Andrew Dahley, Mark Ferdinand Bowers 2019-11-19 $38,332,000
10452920 Systems and methods for generating a summary storyboard from a plurality of image frames Alejandro Kauffmann, Andrew Dahley, Phuong Le, Mark Ferdinand Bowers, Ignacio Garcia-Dorado +4 more 2019-10-22 $32,890,000
10444963 Image data for enhanced user interactions Marek A. Bereza, Adi Berenson, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Lukas Robert Tom Girling, Mark K. Hauenstein +3 more 2019-10-15 $104,842,000
10438632 Direct user manipulation of video to generate scrubbing videos Alejandro Kauffmann, Andrew Dahley, Mark Ferdinand Bowers, Ashley Ma 2019-10-08 $32,246,000
10182141 Apparatus and method for providing transitions between screens Christopher T. Paretti 2019-01-15 $3,401,000
9626742 Apparatus and method for providing transitions between screens Christopher T. Paretti 2017-04-18 $1,365,000
9207837 Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing multiple levels of interaction with a program Christopher T. Paretti, Amber Reed 2015-12-08 $2,277,000