{"@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [{"@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://www.patentleaderboard.com/"}, {"@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Microsoft", "item": "https://www.patentleaderboard.com/company/microsoft"}, {"@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Colin McCartney", "item": "https://www.patentleaderboard.com/inventor/fl:co_ln:mccartney-1"}]}
Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
CM

Colin McCartney — 10 Patents

Microsoft: 9 patents #4,919 of 40,388Top 15%
NVIDIA: 1 patents #4,387 of 7,811Top 60%
Kirkland, WA: #601 of 3,517 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #10,505 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Colin McCartney has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in February 2009. Colin McCartney ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Colin McCartney in Kirkland, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2009Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2002.peak 32001: 1 patents20012002: 3 patents20022006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents20072008: 3 patents20082009: 1 patents2009

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7487516 Desktop composition for incompatible graphics applications Fred D. Nicklisch 2009-02-03 $18,210,000
7439981 Methods and systems for displaying animated graphics on a computing device Nicholas Patrick Wilt 2008-10-21 $32,977,000
7315307 Methods and systems for merging graphics for display on a computing device Nicholas Patrick Wilt, Stephen J. Estrop 2008-01-01
7315308 Methods and system for merging graphics for display on a computing device Nicholas Patrick Wilt, Stephen J. Estrop 2008-01-01
7239324 Methods and systems for merging graphics for display on a computing device Nicholas Patrick Wilt, Stephen J. Estrop 2007-07-03 $23,375,000
7038690 Methods and systems for displaying animated graphics on a computing device Nicholas Patrick Wilt 2006-05-02 $35,079,000
6496864 System and method for freeing shared resources in a computer system 2002-12-17 $149,858,000
6362819 Texture tessellation for three-dimensional models Ketan Dalal 2002-03-26 $124,262,000
6363404 Three-dimensional models with markup documents as texture Ketan Dalal, Anthony L. Willie, Robert Heddle 2002-03-26 $124,262,000
6275857 System and method for freeing shared resources in a computer system 2001-08-14 $444,844,000