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Darren A. Apfel — 30 Patents

Microsoft: 28 patents #973 of 40,388Top 3%
RTRovi Technologies: 1 patents #95 of 111Top 90%
Redmond, WA: #312 of 8,547 inventorsTop 4%
Washington: #2,583 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #121,623 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time
Darren A. Apfel has been granted 30 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in May 2021. Darren A. Apfel ranks #121,623 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.9%). Patent records list Darren A. Apfel in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2014.peak 41999: 1 patents19992001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 4 patents2015: 1 patents20152017: 3 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 4 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10996833 Chromeless user interface Michael A. Smuga, Jason S. Schneekloth, Ryan M. Haning, Michael J. Kruzeniski, Michael K. Henderlight +3 more 2021-05-04 $162,104,000
10832211 Opening an attachment and conversation from a messaging application George Arthur Herbert, III, Elena Catrinescu, Alexander Darrow, Rebecca Jean Lawler, Philip Z. Loh +1 more 2020-11-10 $197,431,000
10810204 Providing access to an electronic message attachment Alex William Darrow, Rebecca Jean Lawler, Philip Z. Loh, Jason Andrew Cook, Joseph Masterson 2020-10-20 $184,619,000
10671256 Chromeless user interface Michael A. Smuga, Jason S. Schneekloth, Ryan M. Haning, Michael J. Kruzeniski, Michael K. Henderlight +3 more 2020-06-02 $84,040,000
10586211 Shared collaboration objects Hayley Lynn Steplyk, Kathleen Rae Thompson, Kenneth Fern, David Paul Limont, Joseph Masterson +1 more 2020-03-10 $83,394,000
10394433 Chromeless user interface Michael A. Smuga, Jason S. Schneekloth, Ryan M. Haning, Michael J. Kruzeniski, Michael K. Henderlight +3 more 2019-08-27 $69,371,000
10154385 Creating a communication group Jonathan D. Friedman, Keith Rowe, Rosanna H. Ho, Sandra I. Vargas, Peter A. Bernard +1 more 2018-12-11 $89,952,000
9977575 Chromeless user interface Michael A. Smuga, Jason S. Schneekloth, Ryan M. Haning, Michael J. Kruzeniski, Michael K. Henderlight +3 more 2018-05-22 $60,030,000
9628755 Automatically tracking user movement in a video chat application Brian McDowell 2017-04-18 $38,106,000
9602611 Current updates Jon Friedman, Justin Maguire, Matthew James Schoenholz, Rosanna H. Ho, Keith Rowe +3 more 2017-03-21 $43,991,000
9578468 Creating a communication group Jonathan D. Friedman, Keith Rowe, Rosanna H. Ho, Sandra I. Vargas, Peter A. Bernard +1 more 2017-02-21 $41,519,000
9172789 Contextual search by a mobile communications device Michael J. Kruzeniski, Jonathan D. Friedman, Kathleen W. Holmes, David Henry Wykes 2015-10-27 $1,281,000
8914072 Chromeless user interface Michael A. Smuga, Jason S. Schneekloth, Ryan M. Haning, Michael J. Kruzeniski, Michael K. Henderlight +3 more 2014-12-16 $40,875,000
8825699 Contextual search by a mobile communications device Michael J. Kruzeniski, Jonathan D. Friedman, Kathleen W. Holmes, David Henry Wykes 2014-09-02 $15,091,000
8667533 Customizing streaming content presentation Brian McDowell, Paolo Malabuyo, Mark Jeffrey Weinberg 2014-03-04 $30,366,000
8639229 Creating a communication group Jon Friedman, Keith Rowe, Rosanna H. Ho, Sandra I. Vargas, Peter A. Bernard +1 more 2014-01-28 $35,401,000
8385952 Mobile communications device user interface Jonathan D. Friedman, Michael J. Kruzeniski, Brian M. Wilson, Michael A. Smuga, Nell H. Hoffman 2013-02-26 $11,012,000
8214464 Current updates Jon Friedman, Justin Maguire, Matthew James Schoenholz, Rosanna H. Ho, Keith Rowe +3 more 2012-07-03 $17,614,000
8175653 Chromeless user interface Michael A. Smuga, Jason S. Schneekloth, Ryan M. Haning, Michael J. Kruzeniski, Michael K. Henderlight +3 more 2012-05-08 $25,243,000
8005927 Current updates Jon Friedman, Justin Maguire, Matthew James Schoenholz, Rosanna H. Ho, Keith Rowe +3 more 2011-08-23 $12,314,000
7543226 Methods and systems for objects supporting structured language persistent state James Lee Francis, Frank Mantek, Andrew Layman, Robert Little 2009-06-02 $32,982,000
7453868 Strategies for sending content to a target device Suresh Parameshwar, Sarthak Deepak Shah, Zankar P. Thakkar 2008-11-18 $21,361,000
7185116 Template-based customization of a user interface for a messaging application program David Milstein, Avner Sander 2007-02-27 $31,612,000
7139555 Unified contact list 2006-11-21 $42,190,000
6973299 Unified contact list 2005-12-06 $34,664,000