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Bret Ahlstrom — 6 Patents

Microsoft: 6 patents #7,433 of 40,388Top 20%
Renton, WA: #253 of 1,385 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #16,995 of 76,902 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Bret Ahlstrom has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in June 2010. Bret Ahlstrom ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Bret Ahlstrom in Renton, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2003.peak 22002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents20032006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents20072010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7739599 Automatic capturing and editing of a video Michael J. Patten, Ian Cameron Mercer, Russell Scott Randall, Warren Burch 2010-06-15 $15,264,000
7242809 Digital video segmentation and dynamic segment labeling Kurt M. Hunter, Ian Cameron Mercer 2007-07-10 $33,253,000
7137063 Method for displaying editable characters in a divided table cell Siddharth Agrawal, Meredith Anne McClurg, Cy Anne Cedar 2006-11-14 $37,797,000
6626955 Method for displaying editable characters in a divided table cell Siddharth Agrawal, Meredith Anne McClurg, Cy Anne Cedar 2003-09-30 $77,295,000
6594030 Intelligent automatic trapping of page objects Paul Elliot 2003-07-15 $93,505,000
6415305 Method for displaying editable characters in a divided table cell Siddharth Agrawal, Meredith Anne McClurg, Cy Anne Cedar 2002-07-02 $197,039,000