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David Kim — 44 Patents

Microsoft: 28 patents #973 of 40,388Top 3%
Google: 10 patents #2,593 of 22,993Top 15%
AIAmerican International Industries: 3 patents #1 of 4Top 25%
MCMwstory Co.: 1 patents #3 of 5Top 60%
GE: 1 patents #19,940 of 36,430Top 55%
Cambridge, MA: #172 of 8,183 inventorsTop 3%
Massachusetts: #1,563 of 88,656 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #66,838 of 4,157,543Top 2%
44 Patents All Time
David Kim has been granted 44 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in June 2025. David Kim ranks #66,838 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.6%). Patent records list David Kim in Cambridge, MA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 44 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12328471 Systems and methods for synchronization of independently encoded media streams Tristan Schmelcher, Markus Kuhn, Laura McKnight, Alexander Kharitonov 2025-06-10
12235363 Using photometric stereo for 3D environment modeling Otmar Hilliges, Malte Hanno Weiss, Shahram Izadi, Carsten Rother 2025-02-25
12236541 Geometry-aware augmented reality effects with real-time depth map Ruofei Du 2025-02-25
12079903 Real screens in extended reality Diego Rivas Vetencourt, Yilong Yao, Steven Soon Leong Toh 2024-09-03 $114,566,000
12073028 Hand gesture recognition based on detected wrist muscular movements Dongeek Shin, Shahram Izadi, Sofien Bouaziz, Steven Benjamin Goldberg, Ivan Poupyrev +1 more 2024-08-27 $76,949,000
11868583 Tangible six-degree-of-freedom interfaces for augmented reality Ruofei Du, Alex Olwal, Mathieu Simon Le Goc, Danhang Tang 2024-01-09 $88,181,000
11592908 Hand gesture recognition based on detected wrist muscular movements Dongeek Shin, Shahram Izadi, Sofien Bouaziz, Steven Benjamin Goldberg, Ivan Poupyrev +1 more 2023-02-28 $65,971,000
11347320 Gesture calibration for devices Dongeek Shin, Sofien Bouaziz 2022-05-31 $85,365,000
11215711 Using photometric stereo for 3D environment modeling Otmar Hilliges, Malte Hanno Weiss, Shahram Izadi, Carsten Rother 2022-01-04 $333,490,000
11030773 Hand tracking based on articulated distance field Jonathan James Taylor, Vladimir Tankovich, Danhang Tang, Cem Keskin, Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle +2 more 2021-06-08 $78,001,000
10839539 System and method for active stereo depth sensing Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle, Vladimir Tankovich, Danhang Tang, Cem Keskin, Jonathan James Taylor +7 more 2020-11-17 $62,652,000
10761612 Gesture recognition techniques Otmar Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, Patrick Olivier, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli +3 more 2020-09-01 $133,035,000
10614591 Hand tracking based on articulated distance field Jonathan James Taylor, Vladimir Tankovich, Danhang Tang, Cem Keskin, Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle +2 more 2020-04-07 $34,380,000
10331222 Gesture recognition techniques Otmar Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, Patrick Olivier, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli +3 more 2019-06-25 $55,928,000
10234941 Wearable sensor for tracking articulated body-parts Shahram Izadi, Otmar Hilliges, David Alexander Butler, Stephen E. Hodges, Patrick Olivier +2 more 2019-03-19 $58,168,000
10049458 Reducing interference between multiple infra-red depth cameras Shahram Izadi, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, Otmar Hilliges, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Stephen E. Hodges +3 more 2018-08-14 $70,220,000
10001845 3D silhouette sensing system Shahram Izadi, Vivek Pradeep, Steven Bathiche, Timothy Andrew Large, Karlton D. Powell 2018-06-19 $93,973,000
9916524 Determining depth from structured light using trained classifiers Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Christoph Rhemann, Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle, Vladimir Tankovich, Shahram Izadi 2018-03-13 $58,125,000
9891704 Augmented reality with direct user interaction Otmar Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, Stephen E. Hodges, David Alexander Butler 2018-02-13 $44,475,000
9857470 Using photometric stereo for 3D environment modeling Otmar Hilliges, Malte Hanno Weiss, Shahram Izadi, Carsten Rother 2018-01-02 $40,719,000
9720506 3D silhouette sensing system Shahram Izadi, Vivek Pradeep, Steven Bathiche, Timothy Andrew Large, Karlton D. Powell 2017-08-01 $22,358,000
9552673 Grasping virtual objects in augmented reality Otmar Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, Malte Hanno Weiss 2017-01-24 $42,640,000
9529424 Augmented reality with direct user interaction Otmar Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, Stephen E. Hodges, David Alexander Butler 2016-12-27 $44,288,000
9380224 Depth sensing using an infrared camera Cem Keskin, Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Shahram Izadi, Pushmeet Kohli, David Sweeney +3 more 2016-06-28 $49,256,000
9372544 Gesture recognition techniques Otmar Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, Patrick Olivier, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli +3 more 2016-06-21 $57,727,000