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David F. Gainer — 17 Patents

Microsoft: 17 patents #2,212 of 40,388Top 6%
Redmond, WA: #701 of 8,547 inventorsTop 9%
Washington: #5,777 of 76,902 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
David F. Gainer has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in April 2022. David F. Gainer ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list David F. Gainer in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2012.peak 32007: 1 patents20072009: 2 patents20092010: 2 patents20102012: 3 patents20122013: 1 patents20132014: 3 patents20142016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents20172019: 1 patents20192022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11295058 Variable formatting of values Benjamin C. Chamberlain, Bruce Cordell Jones, Christopher M. Street, Eric B. Vigesaa 2022-04-05 $223,258,000
10169318 Filter and sort by format Charles D. Ellis, Samuel C. Radakovitz, Yonghong Zeng, Dave McDonald 2019-01-01
9792273 System and method for a spreadsheet application supporting diverse formulaic functions Roy Simkhay, Charles D. Ellis, Alexander Babanov, Daniel Cory, Matthew J. Androski +4 more 2017-10-17 $48,646,000
9507496 Filter and sort by format Charles D. Ellis, Samuel C. Radakovitz, Yonghong Zeng, Dave McDonald 2016-11-29 $32,020,000
9424235 Variable formatting of values Benjamin C. Chamberlain, Bruce Cordell Jones, Christopher M. Street, Eric B. Vigesaa 2016-08-23 $31,125,000
8810595 Declarative approach for visualization Morten Holm-Peterson, Christian Olaf Abeln, Thomas Michael Casey, Stella Yick Chan, Benjamin L. Chronister +12 more 2014-08-19 $30,011,000
8745482 Sorting spreadsheet data by format Charles D. Ellis, Samuel C. Radakovitz, Yonghong Zeng, Dave McDonald 2014-06-03 $32,410,000
8726143 System and method for a spreadsheet application supporting diverse formulaic functions Roy Simkhay, Charles D. Ellis, Alexander Babanov, Daniel Cory, Matthew J. Androski +4 more 2014-05-13 $35,108,000
8549392 Customizable spreadsheet table styles Roy Simkhay, Tom Hoke, Benjamin C. Chamberlain, Paavany Jayanty, Charles D. Ellis 2013-10-01 $29,148,000
8286072 Variable formatting of cells Benjamin C. Chamberlain, Bruce Cordell Jones, Christopher M. Street, Eric B. Vigesaa 2012-10-09 $19,647,000
8234293 Autocompleting with queries to a database Alexander Martynov, Howard J. Dickerman 2012-07-31 $28,011,000
8214765 Canvas approach for analytics Morten Holm-Petersen, George G. Robertson, Christian Olaf Abeln, Thomas Michael Casey, Stella Yick Chan +11 more 2012-07-03 $17,614,000
7853868 Button for adding a new tabbed sheet Brandon Weber 2010-12-14 $21,634,000
7849395 Filter and sort by color Charles D. Ellis, Samuel C. Radakovitz, Yonghong Zhen, Dave McDonald 2010-12-07 $19,194,000
7627812 Variable formatting of cells Benjamin C. Chamberlain, Bruce Cordell Jones, Christopher M. Street, Eric B. Vigesaa 2009-12-01 $28,638,000
7533139 Method and system for multithread processing of spreadsheet chain calculations Bruce Cordell Jones, Chad Rothschiller, Jeffrey James Duzak, Matthew J. Androski, Duane Campbell 2009-05-12 $25,255,000
7233951 Spreadsheet grid-like control for a web-based collaboration system Jonathan Sigler 2007-06-19 $46,980,000