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Thomas Firman — 3 Patents

MIMicosoft: 1 patents #1 of 47Top 3%
Microsoft: 1 patents #24,968 of 40,388Top 65%
Oakland, CA: #1,689 of 4,380 inventorsTop 40%
California: #150,760 of 386,348 inventorsTop 40%
Overall (All Time): #1,328,092 of 4,157,543Top 35%
3 Patents All Time
Thomas Firman has been granted 3 US patents while listed as an inventor at Micosoft. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in June 2009. Thomas Firman ranks #1,328,092 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 31.9%). Patent records list Thomas Firman in Oakland, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2009Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1994.peak 11994: 1 patents19942004: 1 patents20042009: 1 patents2009

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–3 of 3 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7542999 Extended file system Vivek P. Kamath, Craig S. Brown, John B. Pence, M. Chandra Shekaran, Thomas George Lorimor +2 more 2009-06-02 $32,982,000
6754696 Extended file system Vivek P. Kamath, Craig S. Brown, John B. Pence, M. Chandra Shekaran, Thomas George Lorimor +2 more 2004-06-22 $73,169,000
5377303 Controlled computer interface — 1994-12-27

Frequent Collaborators

Keith Toussaint2 shared
Elizabeth J. Gentile2 shared
Vivek P. Kamath2 shared
John B. Pence2 shared
Craig S. Brown2 shared
Thomas George Lorimor2 shared

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