Steve Jobs’s Patents

There’s not much to say about Steve Jobs that hasn’t already been said in the last 24 hours - but this New York Times piece on his patent history shows the level of control that he exercised on the design and user experience at Apple. Amongst the thousands of patents that Apple owns, 317 of them list Steven P. Jobs among their inventors. These patents offer a glimpse into the details he was concerned with on Apple products: they range across the spectrum from a plug to this glass staircase, and include the innovative packaging designs that made the Apple “unboxing” experience a geeky pleasure every time.