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Colby Boles — 5 Patents

Microsoft: 3 patents #13,486 of 40,388Top 35%
Seattle, WA: #5,850 of 21,776 inventorsTop 30%
Washington: #19,692 of 76,902 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Colby Boles has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in July 2018. Colby Boles ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Colby Boles in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2007.peak 12007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents20092013: 1 patents20132018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10018464 System and method for structured light illumination with frame subwindows Raymond Charles Daley 2018-07-10
8391590 System and method for three-dimensional biometric data feature detection and recognition Veeraganesh Yalla, Raymond Charles Daley, Robert Fleming 2013-03-05
7516495 Hardware-based software authenticator Charles H. Shoemaker, John Elsbree, Mark Jeffrey Weinberg, Mark S Newell, Michelle Niethammer +1 more 2009-04-07 $26,157,000
7429932 Remote control code set identification system Mark S Newell, John Elsbree, Michelle Niethammer 2008-09-30 $45,460,000
7308051 Efficient signal decoding for low-power applications 2007-12-11 $51,211,000