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Derek Smith — 8 Patents

Microsoft: 8 patents #5,580 of 40,388Top 15%
Bothell, WA: #399 of 2,342 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #13,119 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Derek Smith has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in October 2014. Derek Smith ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Derek Smith in Bothell, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8874469 Glitch free dynamic video ad insertion Simon P. Atwell 2014-10-28 $24,713,000
8788957 Social virtual avatar modification Brendan Reville, Stacey Law 2014-07-22 $26,287,000
8446414 Programming APIS for an extensible avatar system Brendan Reville, Thomas A. Langan, Dan Kroymann, Stacey Law, Bjorn Toft Madsen +1 more 2013-05-21 $24,092,000
8384719 Avatar items and animations Brendan Reville, Stacey Law 2013-02-26 $11,012,000
7991890 Game console communication with a device Brian Lloyd Schmidt, Christopher Pirich, Gregory A. Martinez, Jon Marcus Randall Whitten, Joshua G. Poley +2 more 2011-08-02 $22,196,000
7663045 Music replacement in a gaming system Brian Lloyd Schmidt, David Pickford 2010-02-16 $17,946,000
7634727 System for abstracting audio-video codecs Maciej Maciesowicz, Barry Steinglass, David Pickford 2009-12-15 $20,279,000
7110940 Recursive multistage audio processing Brian Lloyd Schmidt, Georgios Chrysanthakopoulos 2006-09-19 $39,263,000