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Carey Tanner — 5 Patents

Microsoft: 4 patents #10,758 of 40,388Top 30%
ITInvisage Technologies: 1 patents #28 of 37Top 80%
Gold Bar, WA: #1 of 11 inventorsTop 10%
Washington: #19,692 of 76,902 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Carey Tanner has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in August 2020. Carey Tanner ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Carey Tanner in Gold Bar, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2012.peak 22009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102012: 2 patents20122020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10735672 Image sensors with metal-covered optical black pixels Jae Hyuk Park, Emanuele Mandelli 2020-08-04
8245218 Application programming interface for administering the distribution of software updates in an update distribution system Daniel Joseph Giambalvo, Jay Thaler, Kenneth A. Showman, David Dehghan, Thomas Sponheim +6 more 2012-08-14 $12,366,000
8117230 Interfaces and methods for group policy management Ullattil Shaji, Rahul Gupta, Derek C. Y. Cheng, William J. Whalen, Mike Treit 2012-02-14 $18,405,000
7783672 Support mechanisms for improved group policy management user interface William J. Whalen, Matthew Wetmore 2010-08-24 $15,140,000
7614015 Method and system for representing group policy object topology and relationships William J. Whalen, Matthew Wetmore, William McDaniel 2009-11-03 $22,743,000