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David Nister — 23 Patents

Microsoft: 23 patents #1,393 of 40,388Top 4%
Bellevue, WA: #472 of 6,950 inventorsTop 7%
Washington: #3,876 of 76,902 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
David Nister has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in March 2020. David Nister ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list David Nister in Bellevue, WA, US.

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Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10592778 Stereoscopic object detection leveraging expected object distance Piotr Dollar, Wolf Kienzle, Mladen Radojevic, Matthew S. Ashman, Ivan Stojiljkovic +1 more 2020-03-17 $74,735,000
10345903 Feedback for optic positioning in display devices Steve Robbins, Scott Charles McEldowney, Xinye Lou, David D. Bohn, Quentin S. Miller +3 more 2019-07-09 $59,744,000
10248199 Gaze detection calibration Weerapan Wilairat, Vaibhav Thukral, Morgan Kolya Venable, Bernard James Kerr, Chris Aholt 2019-04-02 $55,404,000
10228561 Eye-tracking system using a freeform prism and gaze-detection light Steve Robbins, Scott Charles McEldowney, Xinye Lou, Drew Steedly, Quentin S. Miller +4 more 2019-03-12 $70,839,000
10025378 Selecting user interface elements via position signal Morgan Kolya Venable, Bernard James Kerr, Vaibhav Thukral 2018-07-17 $45,003,000
9946339 Gaze tracking through eyewear Huimin Guo, Ibrahim Eden, Vaibhav Thukral 2018-04-17 $52,531,000
9934451 Stereoscopic object detection leveraging assumed distance Piotr Dollar, Wolf Kienzle, Mladen Radojevic, Matthew S. Ashman, Ivan Stojiljkovic +1 more 2018-04-03 $53,988,000
9916502 Handling glare in eye tracking Mudit Agrawal, Vaibhav Thukral, Ibrahim Eden, Shivkumar Swaminathan 2018-03-13 $58,125,000
9773170 Pupil detection Milan Vugdelija, Djordje Nijemcevic, Christopher Maurice Mei, Chandra Sekhar Gatla 2017-09-26 $38,019,000
9727136 Gaze detection calibration Weerapan Wilairat, Vaibhav Thukral, Morgan Kolya Venable, Bernard James Kerr, Chris Aholt 2017-08-08 $27,985,000
9488837 Near eye display Georg Klein 2016-11-08 $43,120,000
9465991 Determining lens characteristics Christopher Maurice Mei 2016-10-11 $78,026,000
9454699 Handling glare in eye tracking Mudit Agrawal, Vaibhav Thukral, Ibrahim Eden, Shivkumar Swaminathan 2016-09-27 $73,296,000
9355315 Pupil detection Milan Vugdelija, Djordje Nijemcevic, Christopher Maurice Mei, Chandra Sekhar Gatla 2016-05-31 $40,945,000
9342147 Non-visual feedback of visual change Weerapan Wilairat, Ibrahim Eden, Vaibhav Thukral, Vivek Pradeep 2016-05-17 $38,879,000
9330302 Polarized gaze tracking Vaibhav Thukral, Sudipta Narayan Sinha, Vivek Pradeep, Timothy Andrew Large, Nigel Keam 2016-05-03 $30,562,000
9304586 Eye-typing term recognition Vaibhav Thukral, Djordje Nijemcevic, Ruchi Bhargava 2016-04-05 $42,162,000
9292765 Mapping glints to light sources Derek L. Knee, John Eldridge, Robert Havlik, Ronald Boskovic, Christopher Maurice Mei +2 more 2016-03-22 $35,394,000
9064174 Simultaneous tracking and text recognition in video frames Frederik Schaffalitzky, Michael Grabner, Matthew S. Ashman, Milan Vugdelija, Ivan Stojiljkovic 2015-06-23 $32,988,000
8996557 Query and matching for content recognition Kazuhito Koishida, Ian S. Simon, Tom Butcher 2015-03-31 $24,045,000
8988344 User interface navigation Morgan Kolya Venable, Bernard James Kerr, Vaibhav Thukral 2015-03-24 $16,695,000
8971641 Spatial image index and associated updating functionality Daniel Buchmueller, Michael Kroepfl, Vadim Cugunovs, Blaise Aguera-Arcas, Scott V. Fynn +1 more 2015-03-03 $20,156,000
8917238 Eye-typing term recognition Vaibhav Thukral, Djordje Nijemcevic, Ruchi Bhargava 2014-12-23 $35,011,000