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Charles Cummins — 95 Patents

Microsoft: 89 patents #87 of 40,388Top 1%
Amazon: 5 patents #3,285 of 19,158Top 20%
Oracle: 1 patents #8,339 of 14,854Top 60%
Seattle, WA: #77 of 21,776 inventorsTop 1%
Washington: #312 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #16,077 of 4,157,543Top 1%
95 Patents All Time
Charles Cummins has been granted 95 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in November 2025. Charles Cummins ranks #16,077 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.39%). Patent records list Charles Cummins in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 29 patents in 2007.peak 292005: 1 patents20052006: 14 patents2007: 29 patents20072008: 5 patents2009: 9 patents20092010: 12 patents2011: 5 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 5 patents20132014: 3 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 2 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 95 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12461636 Association of display elements Louis Amadio, Keira Amos, Neel Ishwar Murarka, Phillip Bensaid 2025-11-04
11593127 Generating a navigable interface based on system-determined relationships between sets of content Christian David Straub, Liza Lyons Broadbent, Vladislav Oupickÿ, Jan Pe{hacek over (s)}ka, Jan Plihal 2023-02-28
10489044 Rich drag drop user interface Cornelis K. Van Dok, David G. De Vorchik, Stephan Hoefnagels, Timothy P. McKee, Tyler K. Beam 2019-11-26 $66,445,000
9927949 Recognition interfaces for computing devices Timothy T. Gray, Marc Anthony Salazar, Steven Michael Sommer, Sean Anthony Rooney, Bryan T. Agnetta +3 more 2018-03-27 $68,031,000
9910569 Address bar user interface control Patrice L. Miner, Zeke Odins-Lucas, David G. De Vorchik, Paul Gusmorino 2018-03-06 $61,110,000
9905033 Adjusting graphical characteristics for recognition interfaces Timothy T. Gray, Angela Kathleen Warren, Marc Anthony Salazar, Suzan Marashi, Steven Michael Sommer +3 more 2018-02-27 $131,560,000
9865033 Motion-based image views Ario Jafarzadeh, Vivek Shah, Nicholas Ryan Gilmour, John Matthew Nance, Mihir Kumar Choudhary +1 more 2018-01-09 $69,985,000
9766766 Association of display elements Louis Amadio, Keira Amos, Neel Ishwar Murarka, Phillip Bensaid 2017-09-19 $23,823,000
9671941 Graphical behaviors for recognition interfaces Timothy T. Gray, Russell E. Glaser, Tito Pagan, Steven Michael Sommer, Brian Peter Kralyevich +3 more 2017-06-06 $51,607,000
9354800 Rich drag drop user interface Cornelis K. Van Dok, David G. De Vorchik, Stephan Hoefnagels, Timothy P. McKee, Tyler K. Beam 2016-05-31 $40,945,000
9294670 Lenticular image capture Ario Jafarzadeh, Nicholas Ryan Gilmour, John Matthew Nance, Mihir Kumar Choudhary, Vivek Shah 2016-03-22 $47,166,000
8713444 System and method for browsing tabbed-heterogeneous windows Aaron J. Sauve, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Tony E. Schreiner 2014-04-29 $28,448,000
8694604 Accurate search results while honoring content limitations Justin David Hamilton, Yue Ma, Hua Ding, Xiaowei Sheng, Bing Lang +1 more 2014-04-08 $34,914,000
8656300 Method and system of taskbar button interfaces David A. Matthews, Mark R. Ligameri, Jeffrey W. Pettiross, R. Syam Kumar, Charles W. Stabb +1 more 2014-02-18 $42,189,000
8615717 Address bar user interface control Patrice L. Miner, Zeke Odins-Lucas, David G. DeVorchik, Paul Gusmorino 2013-12-24 $75,678,000
8583664 Exposing metadata relationships through filter interplay Jeffrey Jon Weir, Alex David Weinstein, Alex Ingerman, Timothy R. Sullivan, Katie Jane Messerly +2 more 2013-11-12 $25,186,000
8510673 System and method for pinning tabs in a tabbed browser Aaron J. Sauve, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Tony E. Schreiner 2013-08-13 $23,828,000
8490016 Start menu operation for computer user interface Pasquale DeMaio, Matthew R. Lerner, Song Zou, Bret P. Anderson, David A. Matthews +2 more 2013-07-16 $16,054,000
8490015 Task dialog and programming interface for same Joseph J. Brychell, Mark Coburn, Jan T. Miksovsky, Jeffrey Stewart Miller, Vincent J. Pasceri +1 more 2013-07-16 $16,054,000
8095892 Graphical user interface for 3-dimensional view of a data collection based on an attribute of the data Colin R. Anthony, Stephane St-Michel, Zeke Odins-Lucas, Jordan Schwartz, Richard Banks +3 more 2012-01-10 $16,234,000
D642590 Display screen with an icon Matthew Jubelirer, Rowland Brown, Ronald T. Sasaki, Bryan K. Mamaril, Jason A. Gomez 2011-08-02
7992103 Scaling icons for representing files Paul Gusmorino, Tyler K. Beam, Raymond J. Chen, Robert F. Day, Colin R. Anthony +3 more 2011-08-02 $22,196,000
7966572 User interface transition David A. Matthews, Kanwal VedBrat, Hillel Noah Cooperman, Sterling Reasor, J. Craig Hally +6 more 2011-06-21 $22,222,000
7921365 System and method for browsing tabbed-heterogeneous windows Aaron J. Sauve, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Tony E. Schreiner 2011-04-05 $26,688,000
7921372 System and method for pinning tabs in a tabbed browser Aaron J. Sauve, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Tony E. Schreiner 2011-04-05 $26,688,000