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Christopher A. Zimmerman — 17 Patents

Microsoft: 14 patents #2,871 of 40,388Top 8%
Sony: 1 patents #17,321 of 25,231Top 70%
CSCapital One Services: 1 patents #3,006 of 3,044Top 100%
Rochester, NY: #543 of 6,268 inventorsTop 9%
New York: #8,526 of 115,490 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Christopher A. Zimmerman has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in June 2025. Christopher A. Zimmerman ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Christopher A. Zimmerman in Rochester, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2001.peak 51996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 2 patents20002001: 5 patents20012002: 1 patents20022006: 3 patents20062017: 1 patents20172025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12339869 Migration and validation of data from tabular structures to non-relational data stores Jeremy Green, Jee Won Kang, Brady Murphy 2025-06-24
D798754 Tire pressure equalizer Theodore G. Christian 2017-10-03
7147560 Selection of targets for attachment — 2006-12-12 $919,000
RE39285 Method and system for dynamically generating object connections David S. Stutz 2006-09-12
7100120 Per-property browser having property browsing list with drop list button Christopher Lee Fraley, John Elsbree 2006-08-29 $37,262,000
6417872 Method and system for adding application defined properties and application defined property sheet pages Christopher Lee Fraley, John Elsbree 2002-07-09 $260,831,000
6304918 Object interface control system Christopher Lee Fraley 2001-10-16 $323,552,000
6304258 Method and system for adding application defined properties and application defined property sheet pages Christopher Lee Fraley, John Elsbree 2001-10-16 $323,552,000
6288720 Method and system for adding application defined properties and application defined property sheet pages Christopher Lee Fraley, John Elsbree 2001-09-11
6263492 Run time object layout model with object type that differs from the derived object type in the class structure at design time and the ability to store the optimized run time object layout model Christopher Lee Fraley, Michael Halcoussis, Alan W. Carter, Scott Michael Wiltamuth, Gary S. Burd +1 more 2001-07-17 $310,308,000
6208337 Method and system for adding application defined properties and application defined property sheet pages Christopher Lee Fraley, John Elsbree 2001-03-27 $347,202,000
6067578 Container independent control architecture Christopher Lee Fraley 2000-05-23 $230,369,000
6059838 Method and system for licensed design and use of software objects Christopher Lee Fraley, Michael Halcoussis, Alan W. Carter, Scott Michael Wiltamuth, Gary S. Burd +1 more 2000-05-09 $474,322,000
5911068 Container independent control architecture Christopher Lee Fraley 1999-06-08 $604,079,000
5706505 Method and system for binding data in a computer system Christopher Lee Fraley, Jerry Dunietz, Andrew Layman, Gunnar Mein 1998-01-06 $154,459,000
5682510 Method and system for adding application defined properties and application defined property sheet pages Christopher Lee Fraley, John Elsbree 1997-10-28 $167,689,000
5485617 Method and system for dynamically generating object connections David S. Stutz 1996-01-16 $105,469,000

Frequent Collaborators

Christopher Lee Fraley12 shared
John Elsbree6 shared
Alan W. Carter2 shared
Scott Michael Wiltamuth2 shared
Michael Halcoussis2 shared
Gary S. Burd2 shared

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