# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bran-ferren
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:54:57.257Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bran-ferren"
name: "Bran Ferren"
slug: "bran-ferren"
description: "Bran Ferren is an American technologist, artist, architectural designer, vehicle designer, engineer, lighting and sound designer, visual effects artist, scientist, lecturer, photographer, entrepreneur, and inventor. Ferren is the former President of Research and Development of Walt Disney Imagineering as well as founder of Associates & Ferren, a multidisciplinary engineering and design firm acquired in 1993 by Disney. He is Chief Creative Officer of Applied Minds, which he co-founded in 2000 with Danny Hillis. Apple's \"pinch-to-zoom\" patent, which features prominently in its legal battle with Samsung, was invalidated by the US Patent and Trademark Office in 2013 based on a 2005 patent by Ferren and Hillis for multi-touch gestures. Additionally, he holds US Patent #8381985. This foundational patent teaches the use of two or more cameras and electronic image processing to emulate optical zoom. This is the exact technology used in almost every modern multi-lens smartphone today."
tagline: "American technologist (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Etech05_Bran1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1953-01-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.386413333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0274512/"
    handle:    "nm0274512"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bran_Ferren"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بران فيرين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bran_Ferren"
    title: "Bran Ferren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bran_Ferren"
    title: "Bran Ferren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bran_Ferren"
    title: "Bran Ferren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bran_Ferren"
    title: "Bran Ferren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4956294"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1572468"
    title: "Bran Ferren"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump