PatentBrief

Era in Patents

The 2010s

Cloud infrastructure scaled, deep learning broke through on ImageNet, and CRISPR turned gene editing into a benchtop technique. mRNA delivery platforms were patented years before the world needed them. Tesla's battery and powertrain filings normalized the EV, while LiDAR, computer vision, and transformer architectures laid the patent groundwork for the AI decade that followed.

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Top patents · 36 ranked by influence

20102019

US 7663607 · 2010 · Apple Inc

Multipoint touchscreen

US 7657849 · 2010 · Apple Inc

How the iPhone's Slide-to-Unlock Gesture Worked

US 8697359 · 2014 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

How to Use CRISPR-Cas9 to Edit Genes in Human Cells

US 8278036 · 2012 · University of Pennsylvania Penn

RNA containing modified nucleosides and methods of use thereof

US 8914752 · 2014 · Snapchat Inc

Apparatus and method for accelerated display of ephemeral messages

US 8046721 · 2011 · Apple Inc

Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image

US 7844915 · 2010 · Apple Inc

Application programming interfaces for scrolling operations

US 7812828 · 2010 · Apple Inc

Ellipse fitting for multi-touch surfaces

US 8311950 · 2012 · Google LLC

Detecting content on a social network using browsing patterns

US 8037168 · 2011 · ESDR Network Solutions LLC

Method, product, and apparatus for enhancing resolution services, registration services, and search services

US 10113167 · 2018 · Universitaet Wien

Methods and compositions for RNA-directed target DNA modification and for RNA-directed modulation of transcription

US 10452978 · 2019 · Google LLC

How AI Models Understand Language Using Self-Attention

US 8683378 · 2014 · Apple Inc

Scrolling techniques for user interfaces

US 7904576 · 2011 · Hewlett Packard Development Co LP

Reliable datagram via independent source destination resources

US 9965705 · 2018 · Baidu USA LLC

Systems and methods for attention-based configurable convolutional neural networks (ABC-CNN) for visual question answering

US 8615514 · 2013 · Google LLC

Evaluating website properties by partitioning user feedback

US 8168877 · 2012 · Harman International Industries Canada Ltd

Musical harmony generation from polyphonic audio signals

US 8448084 · 2013 · Twitter Inc

Pull Down to Refresh — The Gesture in Every Mobile App

US 9182882 · 2015 · Autodesk Inc

Dynamic creation and modeling of solid models

US 8493330 · 2013 · Apple Inc

Individual channel phase delay scheme

US 10155945 · 2018 · Nitto Denko Corp

Method of producing lipid nanoparticles for drug delivery

US 7865399 · 2011 · Google LLC

Distributed electronic commerce system with centralized point of purchase

US 8044672 · 2011

Method for measuring D-Q impedance of polyphase power grid components

US 8587547 · 2013 · Apple Inc

Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating soft keyboards

US 9824092 · 2017 · Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC

File storage system including tiers

US 9571603 · 2017 · Cisco Technology Inc

Redundancy network protocol system

US 9839649 · 2017 · Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc

Methods and compositions for selecting siRNA of improved functionality

US 8619056 · 2013 · Elan Microelectronics Corp

Ghost resolution for a capacitive touch panel

US 10456769 · 2019 · Bgi Shenzhen & Bgi Shenzhen Co Ltd

Method of constructing sequencing library

US 10423875 · 2019

Electro-optical device and method for identifying and inducing topological states formed among interconnecting neural modules

US 10410117 · 2019 · BrainChip Inc

Method and a system for creating dynamic neural function libraries

US 9959544 · 2018 · International Business Machines Corp

Updating an application on a smart card and displaying an advertisement

US 9379564 · 2016 · Nissan Motor Co Ltd

Charging control apparatus and charging control method

US 9361579 · 2016 · International Business Machines Corp

Large scale probabilistic ontology reasoning

US 10282665 · 2019 · Sony Corp

Action selection with a reward estimator applied to machine learning

US 9368994 · 2016 · Wistron Corp

Dynamic charging device and method thereof

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