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Charles Loop — 26 Patents

Microsoft: 16 patents #2,398 of 40,388Top 6%
NVIDIA: 7 patents #1,065 of 7,811Top 15%
8L8I Limited: 2 patents #5 of 13Top 40%
Apple: 1 patents #12,397 of 18,612Top 70%
Mercer Island, WA: #71 of 829 inventorsTop 9%
Washington: #3,231 of 76,902 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Charles Loop has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in October 2025. Charles Loop ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Charles Loop in Mercer Island, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2025.peak 31997: 1 patents19972000: 1 patents2001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2018: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2024: 1 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–26 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5602979 System and method for generating smooth low degree polynomial spline surfaces over irregular meshes 1997-02-11 $4,684,000