Adam Smith — 13 Patents at Microsoft

Adam Smith has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in December 2025. Adam Smith ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Adam Smith in Redmond, WA, US.

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Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12492822	Patio heater with reflective fins	Kevin Beepath, Joran Van Lang, Jim Scott	2025-12-09
7836031	Systems and methods for employing a trigger-based mechanism to detect a database table change and registering to receive notification of the change	Robert Howard, Michael Pizzo, Pablo Castro	2010-11-16	$18,085,000
7644414	Application program interface for network software platform	Anthony J. Moore, David S. Ebbo, Erik B. Christensen, Erik Olson, Fabio Yeon +13 more	2010-01-05	$31,776,000
7624126	Registering for and retrieving database table change information that can be used to invalidate cache entries	Michael Pizzo, Robert Howard, Patrick Ng, Scott D. Guthrie	2009-11-24	$30,187,000
7594001	Partial page output caching	David S. Ebbo, Scott D. Guthrie	2009-09-22	$32,817,000
7581231	Computing system and method for allowing plurality of applications written in different programming languages to communicate and request resources or services via a common language runtime layer	Anthony J. Moore, Anders Hejlsberg, Brian A. LaMacchia, Blaine Dockter, Brian Grunkemeyer +70 more	2009-08-25	$29,810,000
7555757	Application program interface for network software platform	Anthony J. Moore, Brian A. LaMacchia, Anders Hejlsberg, Brian Grunkemeyer, Caleb L. Doise +45 more	2009-06-30	$33,649,000
7398304	General dependency model for invalidating cache entries	Robert Howard, Patrick Ng	2008-07-08	$28,005,000
7117504	Application program interface that enables communication for a network software platform	Anthony J. Moore, David S. Ebbo, Erik B. Christensen, Erik Olson, Fabio Yeon +13 more	2006-10-03	$40,851,000
7017162	Application program interface for network software platform	Anthony J. Moore, Brian A. LaMacchia, Anders Hejlsberg, Brian Grunkemeyer, Caleb L. Doise +45 more	2006-03-21	$26,456,000
7013469	Application program interface for network software platform	Anthony J. Moore, Brian A. LaMacchia, Anders Hejlsberg, Brian Grunkemeyer, Caleb L. Doise +45 more	2006-03-14	$49,415,000
6573913	Repositioning and displaying an object in a multiple monitor environment	Laura J. Butler	2003-06-03	$160,092,000
6018340	Robust display management in a multiple monitor environment	Laura J. Butler	2000-01-25	$940,046,000

Adam Smith — 13 Patents

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