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Craig S. Ranta — 43 Patents

Microsoft: 38 patents #564 of 40,388Top 2%
BLBlackberry Limited: 1 patents #1,631 of 2,554Top 65%
SESelfcharge: 1 patents #2 of 7Top 30%
VIVioguard: 1 patents #3 of 6Top 50%
Olympia, WA: #6 of 379 inventorsTop 2%
Washington: #1,464 of 76,902 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #69,380 of 4,157,543Top 2%
43 Patents All Time
Craig S. Ranta has been granted 43 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in September 2025. Craig S. Ranta ranks #69,380 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Craig S. Ranta in Olympia, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 43 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12426210 Systems and methods for supporting a high thermal gradient between a qubit plane and a control system for the qubit plane using a superconducting rigid-flex circuit Matthew David Turner, Kevin Kramer 2025-09-23
12281975 Optical sensor for two-phase cooling vapor level measurement Robert Craig McFarlane, Jr. 2025-04-22
12027361 High temperature superconductor-based interconnect systems with a lowered thermal load for interconnecting cryogenic electronics with non-cryogenic electronics Dawson Yee, Cliff C. Lee, Douglas P. Kelley, Matthew David Turner, David B. Tuckerman 2024-07-02 $566,363,000
11812587 Computer cooling Douglas P. Kelley, Alexis Grace SCHUBERT, Kathryn M. OSEEN-SENDA, Dennis TRIEU, Mark Shaw 2023-11-07 $279,823,000
9965094 Contact geometry tests Aleksandar Uzelac, David A. Stevens, Weidong Zhao, Takahiro Shigemitsu, Briggs A. Willoughby +6 more 2018-05-08 $61,617,000
9395845 Probabilistic latency modeling Aleksandar Uzelac, David A. Stevens, Weidong Zhao, Takahiro Shigemitsu, Briggs A. Willoughby +7 more 2016-07-19 $45,858,000
9233179 Touchscreen sanitizing system Steven Swedenberg 2016-01-12
9030437 Probabilistic latency modeling Aleksandar Uzelac, David A. Stevens, Weidong Zhao, Takahiro Shigemitsu, Briggs A. Willoughby +7 more 2015-05-12 $40,939,000
8725443 Latency measurement Aleksandar Uzelac, David A. Stevens, Weidong Zhao, Takahiro Shigemitsu, Briggs A. Willoughby +6 more 2014-05-13 $35,108,000
8650345 Web configurable human input devices Panos Costa Panay 2014-02-11 $53,117,000
8619055 Active matrix touch sensing William J. Westerinen 2013-12-31 $17,332,000
8577715 Pushed ringtones based on device-side content 2013-11-05 $1,774,000
8543172 Input device with user balanced performance and power consumption 2013-09-24 $26,946,000
8380130 Capacitive bonding of devices Andrew C. Glass, Christopher Mark Dreher, Ellick H. Sung, Randall E. Aull, Doron J. Holan 2013-02-19 $10,297,000
8125448 Wearable computer pointing device Steven Bathiche, Monique Chatterjee 2012-02-28 $31,159,000
8036595 Capacitive bonding of devices Andrew C. Glass, Christopher Mark Dreher, Ellick H. Sung, Randall E. Aull, Doron J. Holan 2011-10-11 $23,760,000
7834956 Photoluminescent backlighting of and infrared transmissive visible light barrier for light valve Nigel Keam 2010-11-16 $18,085,000
7787050 Method and system for downloading and storing interactive device content using the horizontal overscan portion of a video signal Harjit Singh, Jeffrey Alexander 2010-08-31
7782296 Optical tracker for tracking surface-independent movements Yuan Kong 2010-08-24 $15,140,000
7706844 Input device with user balanced performance and power consumption 2010-04-27 $19,291,000
7684754 Capacitive bonding of devices Andrew C. Glass, Christopher Mark Dreher, Ellick H. Sung, Randall E. Aull, Doron J. Holan 2010-03-23 $19,870,000
7557795 Input device using laser self-mixing velocimeter Yuan Kong, Tianpeng Zhao, Hai Ming, Jianping Xie, Jun Xu +1 more 2009-07-07 $34,063,000
7534988 Method and system for optical tracking of a pointing object Yuan Kong, Tianpeng Zhao, Hai Ming, Jianping Xie, Jun Xu +3 more 2009-05-19 $25,886,000
7532861 Connection interface for conveying RF, data, and power between electronic devices Wayne King 2009-05-12 $25,255,000
7477320 Method and system for downloading and storing interactive device content using the horizontal overscan portion of a video signal Jeffrey Alexander, Harjit Singh 2009-01-13