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Colin Acton — 4 Patents

Microsoft: 4 patents #10,758 of 40,388Top 30%
Kirkland, WA: #1,224 of 3,517 inventorsTop 35%
Washington: #23,275 of 76,902 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Colin Acton has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in July 2012. Colin Acton ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Colin Acton in Kirkland, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8225354 Merging electronic program guide information Cory Cirrincione, Michael Hayton, Shawn E. Pickett, Renaud Bordelet, Paul Michael Irwin +3 more 2012-07-17 $17,052,000
8191094 Channel filter for a content player Frederic Azera, Cory Cirrincione, Michael Hayton, Erick Fejta 2012-05-29 $15,522,000
6628301 Extensible framework for tuning to programming sources Terje K. Backman, Jay Alan Borseth, David A. Goll, Sean C. McDowell, Thaddeus C. Pritchett 2003-09-30 $77,295,000
6209040 Method and system for interfacing to a type library Ilan Caron, Alan W. Carter, Tom Corbett, Michael Woolf 2001-03-27 $347,202,000