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William O. Ferry — 13 Patents

Apple: 13 patents #2,537 of 18,612Top 15%
San Jose, CA: #5,025 of 32,062 inventorsTop 20%
California: #47,433 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
William O. Ferry has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in December 2025. William O. Ferry ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list William O. Ferry in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2014.peak 32012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents20132014: 3 patents20142015: 1 patents20152016: 3 patents20162019: 2 patents20192023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12504806 Mechanism for saving power on a bus interface Itay Franko, Derek Iwamoto, Mark Ferdinand Damarillo, Ying-Chen Chen 2025-12-23
11703935 Mechanism for saving power on a bus interface Itay Franko, Derek Iwamoto, Mark Ferdinand Damarillo, Yi-Chun Chen 2023-07-18 $362,289,000
10236697 Charge storage and power routing for dongles and adapters Peter J. Johnston, Neal V. Cecil, Robert Il McKeever, Steven P. Hier, Clinton Bauder +2 more 2019-03-19 $127,162,000
10229770 Unified connector for multiple interfaces William P. Cornelius, Paul A. Baker, Min Chul Kim, Nathan N. Ng 2019-03-12 $142,807,000
9494989 Power distribution inside cable Paul A. Baker, James E. Orr 2016-11-15 $67,478,000
9477437 Sharing a graphics-processing-unit display port David J. Redman, Adrian T. Sheppard, Sreeraman Anantharaman 2016-10-25 $74,258,000
9274579 Circuitry for active cable William P. Cornelius, James E. Orr 2016-03-01 $57,077,000
9070199 Sharing a graphics-processing-unit display port David J. Redman, Adrian T. Sheppard, Sreeraman Anantharaman 2015-06-30 $70,639,000
8862912 Power distribution inside cable Paul A. Baker, James E. Orr 2014-10-14 $68,029,000
8745430 Clock synchronization across an interface with an intermittent clock signal William P. Cornelius, Girault W. Jones 2014-06-03 $58,287,000
8683190 Circuitry for active cable William P. Cornelius, James E. Orr 2014-03-25 $67,584,000
8516238 Circuitry for active cable William P. Cornelius, James E. Orr 2013-08-20 $93,743,000
8312302 Power distribution inside cable Paul A. Baker, James E. Orr 2012-11-13 $110,408,000