He has over 300 patents to his name.

 

He has over 300 patents to his name.

The exact number of patents that include Jobs’ name as either sole inventor or co-inventor varies across the board.

Jobs has 43 patents on “inventions” to his name, whilst the rest are all design-related.He has patents for speakers, staircases, packages, power adaptors, phones, etc.

Jobs received the patent for the Mac OS X Dock user interface the day before he died.

Since his death, he has received another 141 patents to his name. Thus, there are hundreds of patents that contain Jobs’ name.

This U.S. Patent No. 7,479,949, awarded in Jan., 2009, describes “a computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one or more heuristics to the one or more finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the command." More generally speaking, the filing covers how touchscreen-based iOS devices such as the iPhone or iPod touch work.