Inventor
BUTLER CHRISTOPHER J
US25 patents
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APPLE INC
15 patentsUS9542028B2Jan 10, 2017
Temperature compensating transparent force sensor having a compliant layer
APPLE INC61 citations97
US10139959B2Nov 27, 2018
Self-calibration of force sensors and inertial compensation
APPLE INC28 citations94
US10120478B2Nov 6, 2018
Piezo based force sensing
APPLE INC30 citations94
US10048789B2Aug 14, 2018
Force determination employing sheet sensor and capacitive array
APPLE INC18 citations94
US9690413B2Jun 27, 2017
Temperature compensating transparent force sensor having a compliant layer
APPLE INC24 citations94
US9665200B2May 30, 2017
Temperature compensating transparent force sensor
APPLE INC27 citations94
US10386970B2Aug 20, 2019
Force determination based on capacitive sensing
APPLE INC16 citations85
US10739899B2Aug 11, 2020
Force determination employing sheet sensor
APPLE INC5 citations84
US10423265B2Sep 24, 2019
Temperature compensating force sensor
APPLE INC7 citations84
US10379657B2Aug 13, 2019
Force determination employing sheet sensor and capacitive array
APPLE INC7 citations84
US10282014B2May 7, 2019
Operating multiple functions in a display of an electronic device
APPLE INC11 citations84
US10466829B2Nov 5, 2019
Temperature compensating sensor having a compliant layer separating independent force sensing substrates and sense circuitry to obtain a relative measure between the force sensing substrates
APPLE INC2 citations73
US11036341B1Jun 15, 2021
Conductive components in an insulator layer of a touch sensor stackup
APPLE INC2 citations72
US11747950B2Sep 5, 2023
Force determination based on capacitive sensing
APPLE INC0 citations62
US12449940B2Oct 21, 2025
Photo-sensing enabled display for stylus detection
APPLE INC0 citations52
IBM
6 patentsUS9697245B1Jul 4, 2017
Data-dependent clustering of geospatial words
IBM11 citations84
US9405743B1Aug 2, 2016
Dynamic modeling of geospatial words in social media
IBM9 citations84
US10956469B2Mar 23, 2021
System and method for metadata correlation using natural language processing
IBM9 citations79
US10109110B2Oct 23, 2018
Reality augmentation to eliminate, or de-emphasize, selected portions of base image
IBM2 citations73
US9569551B2Feb 14, 2017
Dynamic modeling of geospatial words in social media
IBM0 citations52
US9563615B2Feb 7, 2017
Dynamic modeling of geospatial words in social media
IBM0 citations52