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Benjamin F. Carter — 15 Patents

Microsoft: 13 patents #3,175 of 40,388Top 8%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
Redmond, WA: #843 of 8,547 inventorsTop 10%
Washington: #6,706 of 76,902 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Benjamin F. Carter has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in July 2018. Benjamin F. Carter ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Benjamin F. Carter in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2008.peak 22008: 2 patents20082009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 2 patents2018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10013664 Quick drafts of items in a primary work queue Teresa Thomas, Matthias Baer, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Marcos David Marin Amador, Tony Liang +1 more 2018-07-03 $70,231,000
9792015 Providing visualizations for conversations Matthias Baer, Ned B. Friend, Nicholas Samuel Lee Smith, Bryan Eric Baird, Hiroshi Tsukahara 2017-10-17 $48,646,000
9576261 Quick drafts of items in a primary work queue Teresa Thomas, Matthias Baer, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Marcos David Marin Amador, Tony Liang +1 more 2017-02-21 $41,519,000
9292161 Pointer tool with touch-enabled precise placement Priyanka Singhal, Shawna Julie Davis, Tirthankar Sengupta, Jeffrey C. Fong, Ryan T. Bickel +1 more 2016-03-22 $35,394,000
9158505 Specifying compiled language code in line with markup language code Andrew Mark Coates 2015-10-13 $36,364,000
8959476 Centralized context menus and tooltips Sundaram Ramani, Brett Kilty 2015-02-17 $31,357,000
8866822 Alternate source for controlling an animation Jevan Saks 2014-10-21 $25,843,000
8704783 Easy word selection and selection ahead of finger Shawna Julie Davis, Peter Chin, Tirthankar Sengupta, Priyanka Singhal, Peter Gregory Davis 2014-04-22 $23,747,000
8584102 Creating and using deltas to modify existing computer code Dwayne Need, Varsha Mahadevan, Brandon C. Furtwangler, Tsvetomir V. Valtchev, Cedric P. Dussud +1 more 2013-11-12 $25,186,000
8156425 User interface (UI) dimensioning Cedric P. Dussud 2012-04-10 $17,388,000
7865757 Capacity on demand using signaling bus control John Michael Borkenhagen, Stephen Levesque 2011-01-04 $2,931,000
7823063 Delayed loading and instantiation of resources defined in markup Sundaram Ramani, Peter Ostertag 2010-10-26 $19,005,000
7505987 Method and system for providing interface defaults Nicholas M. Kramer, Mark J. Finocchio 2009-03-17 $13,616,000
7392418 Capacity on demand using signaling bus control John Michael Borkenhagen, Stephen Levesque 2008-06-24 $7,053,000
7337401 User interface element representation with simplified view Peter Ostertag, Mark J. Finocchio, Michael Winser, Nicholas M. Kramer, Samuel W. Bent +1 more 2008-02-26 $32,154,000