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Cindy Liao — 4 Patents

Microsoft: 3 patents #13,486 of 40,388Top 35%
San Diego, CA: #8,442 of 23,606 inventorsTop 40%
California: #126,026 of 386,348 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Cindy Liao has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in August 2025. Cindy Liao ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Cindy Liao in San Diego, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2013 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2014.peak 22013: 1 patents20132014: 2 patents20142025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12393536 Detection of third-party devices on a vehicle bus Vinh Vo 2025-08-19
8856672 Integrated user interface controls for web dialogs Jeffrey C. Dunn, John S. Pruitt, Shawn Allan Michael Lipstein, Jonathan Fred Kern 2014-10-07 $28,629,000
8793598 Cross-browser web dialog platform Shaofeng Zhu, Zachary A. Nation, Charles Reeves Little, II, Tim A. McConnell, Jeff Crowley 2014-07-29 $39,653,000
8621341 Theming engine Jonathan Fred Kern, Richard Eric Andeen, Mario Baumann, Thomas Ham, Ashok Kuppusamy +5 more 2013-12-31 $17,332,000