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 2023 Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2014. peak 3 2012: 1 patents 2012 2013: 1 patents 2013 2014: 3 patents 2014 2015: 1 patents 2015 2016: 3 patents 2016 2019: 2 patents 2019 2023: 1 patents 2023
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Showing 1–13 of 13 patents
Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx Value ⓘ
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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