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Beat Stamm — 29 Patents

Microsoft: 29 patents #907 of 40,388Top 3%
Kirkland, WA: #166 of 3,517 inventorsTop 5%
Washington: #2,710 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
Beat Stamm has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in June 2013. Beat Stamm ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list Beat Stamm in Kirkland, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8471856 Rendering stroke pairs for graphical objects Michael Duggan, Gregory Hitchcock 2013-06-25 $15,479,000
8253742 Rendering stroke pairs for graphical objects Michael Duggan, Gregory Hitchcock 2012-08-28 $15,180,000
7697003 Simplifying complex characters to maintain legibility Michael Duggan, William Hill, Gregory Hitchcock, Geraldine Wade 2010-04-13 $18,577,000
7583267 Stroke contrast in font hinting Gregory Hitchcock, Michael Duggan 2009-09-01 $29,550,000
7505040 Composite characters font hinting Gregory Hitchcock, Michael Duggan 2009-03-17 $13,616,000
7505041 Iteratively solving constraints in a font-hinting language Gregory Hitchcock, Michael Duggan 2009-03-17 $13,616,000
7292247 Dynamically determining directions of freedom for control points used to represent graphical objects Gregory Hitchcock, Michael Duggan 2007-11-06 $20,387,000
7292249 Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has excessive control points Gregory Hitchcock, Michael Duggan 2007-11-06 $20,387,000
7289123 Simplifying complex characters to maintain legibility Michael Duggan, William Hill, Gregory Hitchcock, Geraldine Wade 2007-10-30 $46,422,000
7286121 Sub-component based rendering of objects having spatial frequency dominance parallel to the striping direction of the display Michael Duggan, Geraldine Wade, Greg C. Hitchcock 2007-10-23 $25,268,000
7265757 Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline lacks control points Gregory Hitchcock, Michael Duggan 2007-09-04 $26,539,000
7256786 Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has exact or inexact control points Gregory Hitchcock, Michael Duggan 2007-08-14 $20,227,000
7236174 Adaptively filtering outlines of typographic characters to simplify representative control data Gregory Hitchcock, Michael Duggan 2007-06-26 $32,442,000
7224372 Type size dependent anti-aliasing in sub-pixel precision rendering systems David C. Brown, John C. Platt, Michael Duggan, Gregory Hitchcock 2007-05-29 $37,759,000
7187382 Iteratively solving constraints in a font-hinting language Gregory Hitchcock, Michael Duggan 2007-03-06 $40,082,000
7176941 Dropout control in subpixel rendering Michael Duggan, Gregory Hitchcock, Paul Linnerud 2007-02-13 $37,863,000
7148893 Automatic optimization of the position of stems of text characters Gregory Hitchcock, Claude Betrisey, Matt Conway 2006-12-12 $25,378,000
7136067 Using externally parameterizeable constraints in a font-hinting language to synthesize font variants Gregory Hitchcock, Michael Duggan 2006-11-14 $37,797,000
7057626 Dropout control in subpixel rendering Michael Duggan, Gregory Hitchcock, Paul Linnerud 2006-06-06 $29,120,000
6985160 Type size dependent anti-aliasing in sub-pixel precision rendering systems David C. Brown, John C. Platt, Michael Duggan, Gregory Hitchcock 2006-01-10 $36,413,000
6982725 Dropout control in subpixel rendering Michael Duggan, Gregory Hitchcock, Paul Linnerud 2006-01-03 $40,311,000
6950103 Automatic optimization of the position of stems of text characters Gregory Hitchcock, Claude Betrisey, Matt Conway 2005-09-27 $56,893,000
6894702 Dropout control in subpixel rendering Michael Duggan, Gregory Hitchcock, Paul Linnerud 2005-05-17 $80,560,000
6894701 Type size dependent anti-aliasing in sub-pixel precision rendering systems David C. Brown, John C. Platt, Michael Duggan, Gregory Hitchcock 2005-05-17 $80,560,000
6597360 Automatic optimization of the position of stems of text characters Gregory Hitchcock, Claude Betrisey, Matt Conway 2003-07-22 $113,485,000