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Casey Leon Meekhof — 23 Patents

Microsoft: 23 patents #1,393 of 40,388Top 4%
Redmond, WA: #479 of 8,547 inventorsTop 6%
Washington: #3,876 of 76,902 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Casey Leon Meekhof has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in February 2025. Casey Leon Meekhof ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Casey Leon Meekhof in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2022.peak 62014: 4 patents20142015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 3 patents20172020: 2 patents20202021: 3 patents20212022: 6 patents20222023: 2 patents20232025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12216832 Gesture recognition based on likelihood of interaction Julia Schwarz, Bugra Tekin, Sophie Stellmach, Erian Vazquez, Fabian Gobel 2025-02-04
11768544 Gesture recognition based on likelihood of interaction Julia Schwarz, Bugra Tekin, Sophie Stellmach, Erian Vazquez, Fabian Gobel 2023-09-26 $385,057,000
11703994 Near interaction mode for far virtual object Sheng Kai Tang, Julia Schwarz, Thomas Matthew Gable, Nahil Tawfik Sharkasi, Nicholas Ferianc Kamuda +2 more 2023-07-18 $301,843,000
11461955 Holographic palm raycasting for targeting virtual objects Sheng Kai Tang, Julia Schwarz, Jason Michael Ray, Sophie Stellmach, Thomas Matthew Gable +5 more 2022-10-04 $279,556,000
11423585 Velocity-based controls Kyle Nicholas San, Julia Schwarz 2022-08-23 $222,819,000
11397463 Discrete and continuous gestures for enabling hand rays Julia Schwarz, Sheng Kai Tang, Nahil Tawfik Sharkasi, Sophie Stellmach 2022-07-26 $385,350,000
11320911 Hand motion and orientation-aware buttons and grabbable objects in mixed reality Julia Schwarz, Jason Michael Ray 2022-05-03 $297,849,000
11320957 Near interaction mode for far virtual object Sheng Kai Tang, Julia Schwarz, Thomas Matthew Gable, Nahil Tawfik Sharkasi, Nicholas Ferianc Kamuda +2 more 2022-05-03 $297,849,000
11294472 Augmented two-stage hand gesture input Sheng Kai Tang, Julia Schwarz, Thomas Matthew Gable, Chuan Qin, Nahil Tawfik Sharkasi +5 more 2022-04-05 $223,258,000
11107265 Holographic palm raycasting for targeting virtual objects Sheng Kai Tang, Julia Schwarz, Jason Michael Ray, Sophie Stellmach, Thomas Matthew Gable +5 more 2021-08-31 $193,687,000
10969937 Context-aware system menu behavior for mixed reality Julia Schwarz, Alon Farchy, Sheng Kai Tang, Nicholas Ferianc Kamuda 2021-04-06 $204,677,000
10890967 Systems and methods for using eye gaze to bend and snap targeting rays for remote interaction Sophie Stellmach, Sheng Kai Tang, Julia Schwarz, Nahil Tawfik Sharkasi, Thomas Matthew Gable 2021-01-12 $215,405,000
10831265 Systems and methods for gaze-informed target manipulation Sophie Stellmach, Julia Schwarz 2020-11-10 $197,431,000
10552666 Identification using depth-based head-detection data Robert M. Craig, Vladimir Tankovich, Craig Peeper, Ketan Dalal, Bhaven Dedhia 2020-02-04 $54,087,000
9754154 Identification using depth-based head-detection data Robert M. Craig, Vladimir Tankovich, Craig Peeper, Ketan Dalal, Bhaven Dedhia 2017-09-05 $29,269,000
9639166 Background model for user recognition Robert M. Craig, Craig Peeper, Patrick Orville Cook, Ketan Dalal, Vladimir Tankovich +1 more 2017-05-02 $28,980,000
9539500 Biometric recognition Tommer Leyvand, Jinyu Li, Tim Keosababian, Simon Piotr Stachniak, Ryan Gunn +7 more 2017-01-10 $27,928,000
9278287 Visual based identity tracking Tommer Leyvand, Mitchell Stephen Dernis, Jinyu Li, Yichen Wei, Jian Sun +1 more 2016-03-08 $59,483,000
8926431 Visual based identity tracking Tommer Leyvand, Mitchell Stephen Dernis, Jinyu Li, Yichen Wei, Jian Sun +1 more 2015-01-06 $23,359,000
8872823 Automatic real-time shader modification for texture fetch instrumentation Jason Matthew Gould, Michael E. Pietraszak, Zsolt Mathe, J. Andrew Goossen 2014-10-28 $24,713,000
8864581 Visual based identitiy tracking Tommer Leyvand, Mitchell Stephen Dernis, Jinyu Li, Yichen Wei, Jian Sun +1 more 2014-10-21 $25,843,000
8824749 Biometric recognition Tommer Leyvand, Jinyu Li, Tim Keosababian, Simon Piotr Stachniak, Ryan Gunn +7 more 2014-09-02 $31,345,000
8687880 Real time head pose estimation Yichen Wei, Fang Wen, Jian Sun, Tommer Leyvand, Jinyu Li +1 more 2014-04-01 $35,800,000