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Alan W. Carter — 11 Patents

Microsoft: 11 patents #3,886 of 40,388Top 10%
Bellevue, WA: #1,070 of 6,950 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #9,483 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Alan W. Carter has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in April 2004. Alan W. Carter ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Alan W. Carter in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2004Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2000.peak 31996: 1 patents19961998: 1 patents19982000: 3 patents20002001: 3 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2004

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6718534 System for application independent programming of controls Rajiv Kumar, Scott Michael Wiltamuth, Mei-Chin Tsai 2004-04-06 $130,471,000
6519767 Compiler and method for automatically building version compatible object applications Rajiv Kumar, Andrew R. Solomon 2003-02-11 $175,893,000
6449659 System for instance customization with application independent programming of controls Ilan Caron, Satish Kumar Chittamuru, Rajiv Kumar, Mei-Chin Tsai, Scott Michael Wiltamuth 2002-09-10 $116,187,000
6263492 Run time object layout model with object type that differs from the derived object type in the class structure at design time and the ability to store the optimized run time object layout model Christopher Lee Fraley, Michael Halcoussis, Christopher A. Zimmerman, Scott Michael Wiltamuth, Gary S. Burd +1 more 2001-07-17 $310,308,000
6209040 Method and system for interfacing to a type library Colin Acton, Ilan Caron, Tom Corbett, Michael Woolf 2001-03-27 $347,202,000
6185597 Method and system for expanding a buried stack frame Timothy L. Paterson 2001-02-06 $653,517,000
6108661 System for instance customization Ilan Caron, Satish Kumar Chittamuru, Rajiv Kumar, Scott Michael Wiltamuth 2000-08-22 $506,237,000
6083282 Cross-project namespace compiler and method Ilan Caron, Dennis Mark Canady, Tom Corbett 2000-07-04
6059838 Method and system for licensed design and use of software objects Christopher Lee Fraley, Michael Halcoussis, Christopher A. Zimmerman, Scott Michael Wiltamuth, Gary S. Burd +1 more 2000-05-09 $474,322,000
5742828 Compiler and method for evaluation of foreign syntax expressions in source code Dennis Mark Canady, Ilan Caron, Mark Roberts, David Bradlee, Steven Lees 1998-04-21 $138,628,000
5586328 Module dependency based incremental compiler and method Ilan Caron, Dennis Mark Canady, Tom Corbett, Rajiv Kumar 1996-12-17 $161,461,000