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Bernard C. Kress — 59 Patents

Microsoft: 30 patents #855 of 40,388Top 3%
Google: 17 patents #1,280 of 22,993Top 6%
Delphi Technologies: 4 patents #801 of 4,124Top 20%
AIAerial Imaging: 2 patents #4 of 6Top 70%
ATArcus Technology: 2 patents #2 of 5Top 40%
BGBarrick Gold: 1 patents #68 of 68Top 100%
CEA: 1 patents #3,381 of 7,956Top 45%
UPUniversite Louis Pasteur: 1 patents #27 of 131Top 25%
XDX Development: 1 patents #441 of 653Top 70%
Redwood City, CA: #87 of 5,061 inventorsTop 2%
California: #6,060 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #40,067 of 4,157,543Top 1%
59 Patents All Time
Bernard C. Kress has been granted 59 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in September 2025. Bernard C. Kress ranks #40,067 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.96%). Patent records list Bernard C. Kress in Redwood City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2022.peak 81998: 1 patents19982001: 2 patents2002: 1 patents20022009: 3 patents2010: 2 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122015: 3 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 4 patents2018: 3 patents20182019: 7 patents2020: 4 patents20202021: 3 patents2022: 8 patents20222023: 5 patents2024: 5 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 59 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12422676 Eye tracking head mounted display device Andreas Georgiou, Maria Esther Pace, Ishan Chatterjee, Joel S. Kollin, Mario Possiwan 2025-09-23
12422677 Slanted surface relief grating replication by optical proximity recording Ishan Chatterjee, Joel S. Kollin, Maria Esther Pace 2025-09-23
12313845 Illuminating spatial light modulator with LED array Ishan Chatterjee, Fei Chen, Maria Esther Pace, Joel S. Kollin, Scott Woltman 2025-05-27
12174385 TIR prisms and use of backlight for LCoS microdisplay illumination Ishan Chatterjee, Dmitry Reshidko 2024-12-24 $262,656,000
12019246 Control of variable-focus lenses in a mixed-reality device for presbyopes Robert Thomas Held, Ashley Saulsbury, Dmitry Reshidko 2024-06-25 $466,982,000
12007655 Optical attenuation via switchable grating Ashley Saulsbury 2024-06-11 $443,692,000
11966044 Display with eye tracking and adaptive optics Andreas Georgiou, Alfonsus D. Lunardhi, Joel S. Kollin, Ishan Chatterjee, Mario Possiwan 2024-04-23 $338,628,000
11953686 Combined birefringent material and reflective waveguide for multiple focal planes in a mixed-reality head-mounted display device Robert Thomas Held, Ashley Saulsbury, Dmitry Reshidko 2024-04-09 $549,960,000
11852824 Eye-imaging system with switchable hot mirrors Benjamin Eliot LUNDELL, Joel S. Kollin, Ishan Chatterjee, Maria Esther Pace, Mark Bolas +3 more 2023-12-26 $391,639,000
11768375 Control of variable-focus lenses in a mixed-reality device for presbyopes Robert Thomas Held, Ashley Saulsbury, Dmitry Reshidko 2023-09-26 $385,057,000
11726235 Metasurface optical coupling elements for a display waveguide Eliezer Glik, Hagar Edelstain 2023-08-15 $266,941,000
11693248 TIR prisms and use of backlight for LCoS microdisplay illumination Ishan Chatterjee, Dmitry Reshidko 2023-07-04
11574389 Reprojection and wobulation at head-mounted display device Jeffrey Neil Margolis 2023-02-07 $275,548,000
11514649 Camera for augmented reality display Robert Warren Gruen, Weige Chen, Michael George Boulton, Roberta R. MOEUR 2022-11-29 $189,674,000
11500200 Display with eye tracking and adaptive optics Andreas Georgiou, Alfonsus D. Lunardhi, Joel S. Kollin, Ishan Chatterjee, Mario Possiwan 2022-11-15 $285,702,000
11467406 Field of view expanding system Ishan Chatterjee 2022-10-11 $280,151,000
11448883 Non-linear angular momentum metasurface Ishan Chatterjee 2022-09-20 $204,012,000
11435503 Head mounted display device with double faceted optics Andreas Georgiou, Alfonsus D. Lunardhi, Joel S. Kollin, Ishan Chatterjee, Mario Possiwan +4 more 2022-09-06 $190,609,000
11327307 Near-eye peripheral display device Andreas Georgiou, Joel S. Kollin, Alfonsus D. Lunardhi, Sohaib Abdul Rehman, Charles Thomas HEWITT 2022-05-10 $157,076,000
11263729 Reprojection and wobulation at head-mounted display device Jeffrey Neil Margolis 2022-03-01 $213,318,000
11243399 Head mounted display device with double faceted optics Andreas Georgiou, Alfonsus D. Lunardhi, Joel S. Kollin, Ishan Chatterjee, Mario Possiwan 2022-02-08 $249,808,000
11036051 Head wearable display using powerless optical combiner Ehsan Saeedi 2021-06-15 $75,825,000
10897601 Display projector with non-uniform pixel resolution Ishan Chatterjee 2021-01-19 $251,618,000
10890768 Polarization-based dynamic focuser Joel S. Kollin, Andreas Georgiou 2021-01-12 $215,405,000
10838110 Metasurface optical coupling elements for a display waveguide Eliezer Glik, Hagar Edelstain 2020-11-17 $148,442,000