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David William Burns — 109 Patents

Qualcomm: 48 patents #510 of 12,104Top 5%
Intel: 15 patents #2,763 of 30,777Top 9%
Honeywell: 15 patents #624 of 16,504Top 4%
MPMaxim Integrated Products: 6 patents #117 of 945Top 15%
WARF: 4 patents #486 of 4,123Top 15%
SNSnaptrack: 4 patents #14 of 213Top 7%
SPStc Plc: 1 patents #73 of 231Top 35%
SPSkyline Products: 1 patents #6 of 13Top 50%
PGPepperl+Fuchs Gmbh: 1 patents #36 of 102Top 40%
San Jose, CA: #216 of 32,062 inventorsTop 1%
California: #1,921 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #12,191 of 4,157,543Top 1%
109 Patents All Time
David William Burns has been granted 109 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in June 2025. David William Burns ranks #12,191 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.29%). Patent records list David William Burns in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2018.peak 121992: 1 patents19921994: 1 patents1995: 2 patents1996: 4 patents19961998: 5 patents1999: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 3 patents2002: 2 patents2003: 2 patents20032004: 1 patents2006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 3 patents2009: 3 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents2012: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 5 patents2015: 5 patents2016: 6 patents20162017: 9 patents2018: 12 patents2019: 12 patents20192020: 5 patents2021: 7 patents2022: 2 patents20222024: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 109 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12327426 Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor for under-display applications Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh, Ila BADGE, Yipeng Lu, Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev, Suryaprakash Ganti +6 more 2025-06-10
11946842 Thermophoretic particle concentrator David Woolsey 2024-04-02
11366543 Biometric sensor with force detection and ultrasonic imaging capability Firas Sammoura, Ravindra V. Shenoy 2022-06-21 $27,540,000
11326991 Airborne particle detection with selective thermophoretic particle deflection David Woolsey 2022-05-10
11047777 Thermophoretic particle concentrator David Woolsey 2021-06-29
11017251 Ultrasonic imaging devices and methods Jack C. Kitchens, John K. Schneider, Stephen Michael Gojevic, Philip Schneider, Evan Michael Breloff +2 more 2021-05-25 $25,633,000
11003884 Fingerprint sensor device and methods thereof Nicholas Ian Buchan, Mario Francisco Velez, Chin-Jen Tseng, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh, Firas Sammoura +4 more 2021-05-11 $23,097,000
10948391 Airborne particle detection system with orientation-dependent particle discrimination David Woolsey 2021-03-16
10948392 Airborne particle detection system with thermophoretic scanning David Woolsey 2021-03-16
10921224 Thermophoretic particle detection system with variable channel geometry David Woolsey 2021-02-16
10902236 Biometric system with photoacoustic imaging Yipeng Lu 2021-01-26 $27,071,000
10733409 Hybrid capacitive and ultrasonic sensing Sandeep Louis D'Souza, Vadim Winebrand, Ashish Hinger, Paul Penchin Pan, Meir Agassy +9 more 2020-08-04 $17,142,000
10735865 Transducer with piezoelectric, conductive and dielectric membrane Philip Jason Stephanou, Ravindra V. Shenoy 2020-08-04 $17,142,000
10678712 Method and apparatus for bus lock assistance Robert S. Chappell, John W. Faistl, Hermann W. Gartler, Michael D. Tucknott, Rajesh S. Parthasarathy 2020-06-09 $37,008,000
10569302 Biometric sensor with force detection and ultrasonic imaging capability Firas Sammoura, Ravindra V. Shenoy 2020-02-25 $18,377,000
10552658 Biometric sensor with finger-force navigation Jessica Liu Strohmann, Yair Karmi, Yipeng Lu, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh 2020-02-04 $22,296,000
10515255 Fingerprint sensor with bioimpedance indicator Jessica Liu Strohmann, Yair Karmi, Yipeng Lu, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh 2019-12-24 $26,100,000
10503948 Multi-spectral ultrasonic imaging Jack C. Kitchens, John K. Schneider, Ashish Hinger, Ranjith Ranganathan, Nai-Kuei Kuo +8 more 2019-12-10 $17,361,000
10497748 Integrated piezoelectric micromechanical ultrasonic transducer pixel and array Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh, Suryaprakash Ganti, Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev, Timothy Dickinson, Donald William Kidwell, Jr. +4 more 2019-12-03 $15,799,000
10478858 Piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer and process Jon Bradley Lasiter, Ravindra V. Shenoy, Evgeni Gousev, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh, Nai-Kuei Kuo +2 more 2019-11-19 $11,666,000
10438040 Multi-functional ultrasonic fingerprint sensor Jessica Liu Strohmann, Yair Karmi, Yipeng Lu, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh 2019-10-08 $18,674,000
10410034 Ultrasonic biometric system with harmonic detection Jessica Liu Strohmann, Yipeng Lu, Ashish Hinger 2019-09-10 $12,596,000
10366269 Biometric system with photoacoustic imaging Yipeng Lu 2019-07-30 $16,944,000
10274590 Ultrasonic imaging with acoustic resonant cavity Nai-Kuei Kuo, Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev, Ranjith Ranganathan, Nao S. Chuei, Ashish Hinger 2019-04-30 $18,323,000
10235552 Hybrid capacitive and ultrasonic sensing Sandeep Louis D'Souza, Vadim Winebrand, Ashish Hinger, Paul Penchin Pan, Meir Agassy +9 more 2019-03-19 $10,857,000