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Ben Sugden — 61 Patents

Microsoft: 60 patents #232 of 40,388Top 1%
Woodinville, WA: #27 of 1,504 inventorsTop 2%
Washington: #767 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #37,626 of 4,157,543Top 1%
61 Patents All Time
Ben Sugden has been granted 61 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in March 2021. Ben Sugden ranks #37,626 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.91%). Patent records list Ben Sugden in Woodinville, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 61 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10955914 Gaze-based object placement within a virtual reality environment Aaron M. Burns, Laura K. Massey, Tom Salter 2021-03-23 $162,800,000
10955665 Concurrent optimal viewing of virtual objects Tom Salter, Daniel Deptford, Robert L. Crocco, Jr., Brian E. Keane, Laura K. Massey +3 more 2021-03-23 $162,800,000
10649212 Ground plane adjustment in a virtual reality environment Aaron M. Burns, Laura K. Massey, Alexandre Da Veiga, Tom Salter, Greg Alt 2020-05-12 $80,014,000
10643389 Mechanism to give holographic objects saliency in multiple spaces Mathew J. Lamb, Robert L. Crocco, Jr., Brian E. Keane, Christopher E. Miles, Kathryn Stone Perez +2 more 2020-05-05 $112,664,000
10451875 Smart transparency for virtual objects Jeff Sutherland, Tom Salter 2019-10-22 $47,074,000
10416760 Gaze-based object placement within a virtual reality environment Aaron M. Burns, Laura K. Massey, Tom Salter 2019-09-17 $66,894,000
10311638 Anti-trip when immersed in a virtual reality environment Alexandre Da Veiga, Laura K. Massey 2019-06-04 $61,829,000
10175483 Hybrid world/body locked HUD on an HMD Tom Salter, Daniel Deptford, Robert L. Crocco, Jr., Brian E. Keane, Laura K. Massey +3 more 2019-01-08 $55,256,000
10139623 Virtual object orientation and visualization Brian E. Keane, Robert L. Crocco, Jr., Daniel Deptford, Tom Salter, Laura K. Massey +3 more 2018-11-27 $63,003,000
10096168 Three-dimensional mixed-reality viewport Alexandre Da Veiga, Jon Christen 2018-10-09 $102,719,000
10083540 Virtual light in augmented reality Darren Bennett, Brian Mount, Sebastian Sylvan, Arthur Tomlin, Ryan Hastings +3 more 2018-09-25 $110,824,000
10055888 Producing and consuming metadata within multi-dimensional data Jonathan R. Christen, John Charles Howard, Marcus Tanner, Robert Courtney Memmott, Kenneth Charles Ouellette +3 more 2018-08-21 $63,387,000
9904055 Smart placement of virtual objects to stay in the field of view of a head mounted display Aaron M. Burns, Tom Salter 2018-02-27 $69,890,000
9865089 Virtual reality environment with real world objects Aaron M. Burns, Tom Salter, Jeff Sutherland 2018-01-09 $35,614,000
9858720 Three-dimensional mixed-reality viewport Alexandre Da Veiga, Jon Christen 2018-01-02 $40,719,000
9851787 Display resource management Stephen Latta, Jedd Perry, Rod G. Fleck, Jack Clevenger, Frederik Schaffalitzky +6 more 2017-12-26 $39,944,000
9836889 Executable virtual objects associated with real objects John Clavin, Ben Vaught, Stephen Latta, Kathryn Stone Perez, Daniel McCulloch +6 more 2017-12-05 $43,576,000
9766460 Ground plane adjustment in a virtual reality environment Aaron M. Burns, Laura K. Massey, Alexandre Da Veiga, Tom Salter, Greg Alt 2017-09-19 $23,823,000
9761057 Indicating out-of-view augmented reality images Thomas G. Salter, Daniel Deptford, Robert L. Crocco, Jr., Brian E. Keane, Laura K. Massey +16 more 2017-09-12 $27,507,000
9734636 Mixed reality graduated information delivery Thomas G. Salter, Daniel Deptford, Robert L. Crocco, Jr., Brian E. Keane, Laura K. Massey +3 more 2017-08-15 $35,271,000
9645397 Use of surface reconstruction data to identify real world floor Alexandre Da Veiga, Tom Salter 2017-05-09 $28,083,000
9619939 Mixed reality graduated information delivery Thomas G. Salter, Daniel Deptford, Robert L. Crocco, Jr., Brian E. Keane, Laura K. Massey +3 more 2017-04-11 $44,947,000
9606992 Personal audio/visual apparatus providing resource management Kevin Geisner, Kathryn Stone Perez, Stephen Latta, Benjamin I. Vaught, Alex Aben-Athar Kipman +2 more 2017-03-28 $37,455,000
9594537 Executable virtual objects associated with real objects John Clavin, Ben Vaught, Stephen Latta, Kathryn Stone Perez, Daniel McCulloch +6 more 2017-03-14 $33,293,000
9583032 Navigating content using a physical object Mathew J. Lamb, Robert L. Crocco, Jr., Brian E. Keane, Christopher E. Miles, Kathryn Stone Perez +4 more 2017-02-28 $30,997,000