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Donald Brinkman — 18 Patents

Microsoft: 18 patents #2,027 of 40,388Top 6%
Seattle, WA: #1,525 of 21,776 inventorsTop 8%
Washington: #5,373 of 76,902 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Donald Brinkman has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in September 2025. Donald Brinkman ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Donald Brinkman in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2020.peak 52014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents20152018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents20192020: 5 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 3 patents20222023: 2 patents20232024: 1 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12403393 Detecting events in a livestream video of a video game in an esports competition Willie Owens, Nathan Welch 2025-09-02
12079287 Selective presentation of rich experiences in search Aman Singhal, Marcelo De Barros, Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Max Artemov 2024-09-03 $243,844,000
11752427 Detecting events in a livestream video of a video game in an esports COMPEITlION Willie Owens, Nathan Welch 2023-09-12 $346,738,000
11625622 Memorable event detection, recording, and exploitation Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Joseph Edwin Johnson, Jr., Dustin Abramson, Maria A. Rangel, Ying Wang +8 more 2023-04-11 $337,710,000
11458405 Systems and methods for cheat detection in electronic games Nathan Welch 2022-10-04 $279,556,000
11443512 Systems and methods for querying video information of electronic games Yash Vesikar, Varun Varshney 2022-09-13 $207,053,000
11281733 Selective presentation of rich experiences in search Aman Singhal, Marcelo De Barros, Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Max Artemov 2022-03-22 $265,438,000
11170819 Dynamic video highlight Suvamsh Shivaprasad, Max Artemov, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Matthai Philipose, Peter Bodik 2021-11-09 $291,378,000
10878307 EQ-digital conversation assistant Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Daniel Lee Massey, Dustin Abramson, Scott A. Schwarz, Sergei Tuterov +6 more 2020-12-29 $251,937,000
10691896 Conversational system user behavior identification Joseph Edwin Johnson, Jr., Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Matthew W Schuerman 2020-06-23 $123,189,000
10581765 Conversation bot discovery and response fusion Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Joseph Edwin Johnson, Jr., Dustin Abramson, Oussama Elachqar, Hailong Mu +1 more 2020-03-03 $64,161,000
10574597 Conversational log replay with voice and debugging information Joseph Edwin Johnson, Jr., Matthew W Schuerman 2020-02-25 $60,478,000
10535344 Conversational system user experience Joseph Edwin Johnson, Jr., Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Hailong Mu, Dustin Abramson, Hudong Wang +2 more 2020-01-14 $71,807,000
10250532 Systems and methods for a personality consistent chat bot Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Joseph Edwin Johnson, Jr., Dustin Abramson, Maria A. Rangel, Ying Wang +8 more 2019-04-02 $55,404,000
10120866 Conversational system user behavior identification Joseph Edwin Johnson, Jr., Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Matthew W Schuerman 2018-11-06 $83,233,000
8972462 Display of temporal data over multiple orders of magnitude Oscar Gerardo Naim, Michael Jonathan Galos, Puneet Hariharan, Jonathan Edgar Fay 2015-03-03 $20,156,000
8872849 Relational rendering of multi-faceted data Jian Zhao, Steven M. Drucker, Danyel A. Fisher 2014-10-28 $24,713,000
8788538 Navigation of hierarchical data using climb/dive and spin inputs 2014-07-22 $26,287,000