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Abigail Sellen — 27 Patents

Microsoft: 20 patents #1,724 of 40,388Top 5%
HP: 6 patents #3,252 of 16,619Top 20%
Xerox: 1 patents #5,237 of 8,622Top 65%
FIFujifilm Business Innovation: 1 patents #3,981 of 5,238Top 80%
Cambridge, GB: #112 of 4,587 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Abigail Sellen has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in October 2025. Abigail Sellen ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Abigail Sellen in Cambridge, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2012.peak 42004: 2 patents20042006: 3 patents2007: 1 patents20072010: 2 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 4 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 3 patents2017: 2 patents20172019: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents20232025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12450849 Collaborative system Edward Sean Lloyd Rintel, Payod PANDA, Lev Tankelevitch, Kori Inkpen, John C. Tang +7 more 2025-10-21
12422973 Established perspective user interface and user experience for video meetings John C. Tang, William Arthur Stewart Buxton, Andrew D. Wilson, Kori Inkpen, Sasa Junuzovic +1 more 2025-09-23
11656747 Established perspective user interface and user experience for video meetings John C. Tang, William Arthur Stewart Buxton, Andrew D. Wilson, Kori Inkpen, Sasa Junuzovic +1 more 2023-05-23 $326,580,000
11244284 Document status management system Douglas Lane Milvaney, Benjamin Wilde, Nina Rhodes WILLIAMS, Sian Lindley, Kelsey Ann Vaughn +1 more 2022-02-08 $249,808,000
10795450 Hover interaction using orientation sensing William A. S. Buxton, Samuel Gavin Smyth, Kenton O'Hara, Richard Banks 2020-10-06 $143,945,000
10218882 Feedback for object pose tracker Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Andrew William Fitzgibbon, Jonathan James Taylor, Richard Banks, David Sweeney +2 more 2019-02-26 $52,330,000
9727135 Gaze calibration Adam Emfield, Arridhana Ciptadi, Kenneth Robert Woodberry, Andrew Blake 2017-08-08 $27,985,000
9552345 Gestural annotations Nicholas Yen-Cherng Chen, Dongwook Yoon 2017-01-24 $42,640,000
8787580 Distribution of keys for encryption/decryption Stephen E. Hodges, Kenneth Robert Wood, James Srinivasan 2014-07-22 $26,287,000
8762892 Controlling an integrated messaging system using gestures Richard Banks, Philip Gosset, Richard Harper 2014-06-24 $40,583,000
8633934 Creating animations Xiang Cao, John Helmes, Sian Lindley 2014-01-21 $30,556,000
8555192 Sketching and searching application for idea generation Xiang Cao, John Helmes, Richard Banks 2013-10-08 $30,716,000
8489569 Digital media retrieval and display David Kirk, Nicolas Villar, Richard Banks, David Alexander Butler, Shahram Izadi +1 more 2013-07-16 $16,054,000
8351331 Resource allocation framework for wireless/wired networks Thomas Karagiannis, Christos Gkantsidis, Peter B. Key, Richard Harper, Timothy Regan +4 more 2013-01-08 $13,559,000
8325192 Creating animations Xiang Cao, John Helmes, Sian Lindley 2012-12-04 $15,162,000
8259957 Communication devices David Frohlich, Lorna M. Brown, Abigail Durrant, Sian Lindley, Gerard Oleksik +3 more 2012-09-04 $22,808,000
8238582 Sound playback and editing through physical interaction Lorna M. Brown, Abigail Durrant, David Frohlich, Sian Lindley, Gerard Oleksik +3 more 2012-08-07 $11,434,000
8199117 Archive for physical and digital objects Shahram Izadi, Richard Banks, Stuart Taylor, Stephen E. Hodges, Alex Butler 2012-06-12 $20,322,000
8025573 Physical representational objects with digital memory and methods of manufacture and use thereof Stuart Phillip Stenton, Guy Adams, Fraser John Dickin, Richard Anthony Lawrence, James Thomas Edward McDonnell 2011-09-27 $34,165,000
7721224 Electronic calendar with message receiver Richard Harper 2010-05-18 $13,421,000
7671737 Monitoring and notification apparatus Lorna M. Brown, Abigail Durrant, David Frohlich, Sian Lindley, Gerard Oleksik +3 more 2010-03-02 $22,070,000
7290715 Physical multimedia documents, and methods and apparatus for publishing and reading them John Waters, Guy Adams, Richard Anthony Lawrence 2007-11-06 $17,775,000
7134077 Text processing system Barry Allen Thomas Brown, Andrew Morgan 2006-11-07 $18,878,000
7069238 Shopping assistance service Colin I'Anson, Rachel Murphy 2006-06-27 $14,373,000
7015969 Hand-held image capture apparatus with scanning arrangement Barry Allen Thomas Brown, Colin I'Anson, Weng Wah Loh, Andrew Morgan, Kenton O'Hara +1 more 2006-03-21 $23,179,000