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William Drew Atkinson — 19 Patents

JLJune Life: 6 patents #12 of 23Top 55%
Apple: 6 patents #4,834 of 18,612Top 30%
GMGeneral Magic: 3 patents #3 of 31Top 10%
GOGopro: 2 patents #310 of 466Top 70%
WLWoodman Labs: 2 patents #6 of 13Top 50%
San Francisco, CA: #2,103 of 26,999 inventorsTop 8%
California: #31,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
William Drew Atkinson has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in December 2020. William Drew Atkinson ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list William Drew Atkinson in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2017.peak 41984: 1 patents19841986: 1 patents1988: 1 patents19881990: 1 patents1991: 1 patents19911994: 1 patents1997: 2 patents19971999: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 4 patents20172020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D903398 Oven Nikhil Bhogal, Danielle Sheehan, Gabe Risk, Amanda Tyree, Nikko Lubinski +1 more 2020-12-01
D802996 Door for a countertop oven Nikhil Bhogal, Danielle Sheehan, Gabe Risk, Amanda Tyree, Nikko Lubinski +1 more 2017-11-21
D782864 Countertop oven Nikhil Bhogal, Danielle Sheehan, Gabe Risk, Amanda Tyree, Nikko Lubinski +1 more 2017-04-04
D780111 Battery Joshua Randall Clyne, Sameer M. Venugopal, David Andres Guasca 2017-02-28
D777504 Countertop oven with bumper Nikhil Bhogal, Danielle Sheehan, Gabe Risk, Amanda Tyree, Nikko Lubinski +1 more 2017-01-31
D771995 Countertop oven Nikhil Bhogal, Danielle Sheehan, Gabe Risk, Amanda Tyree, Nikko Lubinski +1 more 2016-11-22
D771996 Countertop oven with cooling features Nikhil Bhogal, Danielle Sheehan, Gabe Risk, Amanda Tyree, Nikko Lubinski +1 more 2016-11-22
D725590 Battery Joshua Randall Clyne, Sameer M. Venugopal, David Andres Guasca 2015-03-31
D699275 Lens adapter Rudy Lucas Samuels, Nicholas D. Woodman, Fred Bould, Kristen Beck 2014-02-11
D692472 Lens adapter Rudy Lucas Samuels, Nicholas D. Woodman, Fred Bould, Kristen Beck 2013-10-29
5896133 Graphical user interface for navigating between street, hallway, room, and function metaphors Kevin Lynch, Andrew J. Hertzfeld 1999-04-20 $3,633,000
5689669 Graphical user interface for navigating between levels displaying hallway and room metaphors Kevin Lynch, Andrew J. Hertzfeld 1997-11-18 $1,585,000
5611031 Graphical user interface for modifying object characteristics using coupon objects Andrew J. Hertzfeld, Susan Kare 1997-03-11 $927,000
5335299 Video compression algorithm 1994-08-02 $45,534,000
5033105 Video compression algorithm 1991-07-16 $58,093,000
4931783 Method and apparatus for removable menu window 1990-06-05 $19,391,000
RE32632 Display system 1988-03-29
4622545 Method and apparatus for image compression and manipulation 1986-11-11 $19,387,000
4464652 Cursor control device for use with display systems William F. Lapson 1984-08-07 $26,285,000