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David J. Cheng — 10 Patents

Microsoft: 10 patents #4,378 of 40,388Top 15%
Cupertino, CA: #1,610 of 6,989 inventorsTop 25%
California: #61,378 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
David J. Cheng has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in May 2018. David J. Cheng ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list David J. Cheng in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2008.peak 22008: 2 patents20082009: 1 patents20092012: 1 patents20122014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9961036 News feed techniques Ken H. Chin, Oludare Obasanjo, Douglas R. Pearce, Seung-Hae Park, Jennie P. Telehowski +1 more 2018-05-01 $53,440,000
9836724 Email views 2017-12-05 $43,576,000
9507919 Rights management system for streamed multimedia content Clifford P. Van Dyke, Siva Mohan 2016-11-29 $32,020,000
9185064 Interactive email Richard S. Craddock, Ken H. Chin, Scott Isaacs 2015-11-10 $38,752,000
8935339 News feed techniques Ken H. Chin, Oludare Obasanjo, Douglas R. Pearce, Seung-Hae Park, Jennie P. Telehowski +1 more 2015-01-13 $32,048,000
8699861 Recorded content management Peter J. Potrebic, Bruce A. Leak, Shannon B. Vosseller, Marcus Tai-Tong Aiu 2014-04-15 $31,167,000
8139768 Encrypting content in a tuner device and analyzing content protection policy Thaddeus C. Pritchett, Kenneth Reneris, Bernhard Kotzenberg 2012-03-20 $19,292,000
7640566 Dynamic pause buffer sizing Thomas H. Taylor, Peter J. Potrebic 2009-12-29 $28,457,000
7394967 Recorded content management Peter J. Potrebic, Bruce A. Leak, Shannon B. Vosseller, Marcus Tai-Tong Aiu 2008-07-01 $27,605,000
7369750 Managing record events Mark Young, Samuel Thomas Scott, III, Pradhan S. Rao 2008-05-06 $36,419,000