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Duane Martin Evans — 24 Patents

Microsoft: 18 patents #2,027 of 40,388Top 6%
HP: 4 patents #4,645 of 16,619Top 30%
VAValve: 1 patents #96 of 125Top 80%
Meta: 1 patents #6,749 of 6,883Top 100%
Snohomish, WA: #38 of 719 inventorsTop 6%
Washington: #3,621 of 76,902 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Duane Martin Evans has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in July 2025. Duane Martin Evans ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Duane Martin Evans in Snohomish, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2016.peak 52005: 1 patents20052009: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 5 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 3 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12374940 Apparatus, system, and method for interactive wireless charging of head-mounted displays John Ho, Jiang Zhu, James Andrew Hammer 2025-07-29
11056042 Systems and methods to reduce visual artifacts in displays Jeremy Adam Selan 2021-07-06
11032954 Shield can Stephen C. Klein, Todd David Pleake, Daniel M. Galel, Ivan Andrew McCracken, Mark Mitchell Gloster +1 more 2021-06-08 $130,719,000
10942547 Indexed sequential lock Joseph B. Gault, Scott Douglas Bowers, Anthony E. Hillyerd, Yazan Aldehayyat 2021-03-09 $234,441,000
10656693 Power management contracts for accessory devices Gene Robert Obie, Heng Huang, Yi He 2020-05-19
10542643 Shield can Stephen C. Klein, Todd David Pleake, Daniel M. Galel, Ivan Andrew McCracken, Mark Mitchell Gloster +1 more 2020-01-21 $61,337,000
10317983 Accessory device power management Gene Robert Obie, Yi He, Heng Huang, Michael Gruber, Thitipant Tantasirikorn 2019-06-11 $45,655,000
10133315 Indexed sequential lock Joseph B. Gault, Scott Douglas Bowers, Anthony E. Hillyerd, Yazan Aldehayyat 2018-11-20 $52,450,000
9874914 Power management contracts for accessory devices Gene Robert Obie, Heng Huang, Yi He 2018-01-23 $52,883,000
9843137 Electronic connector Ivan Andrew McCracken, Brett Andrew Tomky 2017-12-12 $71,573,000
9728915 Tapered-fang electronic connector Yazan Aldehayyat, Wei Guo, Ivan Andrew McCracken, Kanth Kurumaddali 2017-08-08 $27,985,000
9594415 Accessory device power management Gene Robert Obie, Yi He, Heng Huang, Michael Gruber, Thitipant Tantasrikorn 2017-03-14 $33,293,000
9477625 Reversible connector for accessory devices Heng Huang, Yi He, Gene Robert Obie 2016-10-25 $63,684,000
9454504 Slave device bit sequence zero driver 2016-09-27 $9,713,000
9367490 Reversible connector for accessory devices Heng Huang, Yi He, Gene Robert Obie 2016-06-14 $42,465,000
9311909 Sensed sound level based fan speed adjustment Edward C. Giaimo, III, Yi He, Andrew Douglas Delano 2016-04-12 $45,069,000
9235545 Single wire concurrent bi-directional communication for PSU Chee Kiong Fong, Suet Fong Tin, Harjit Singh, Peter Atkinson, Perry S. Stultz +1 more 2016-01-12 $67,891,000
9178316 Electronic connector Ivan Andrew McCracken, Brett Andrew Tomky 2015-11-03 $50,275,000
9017092 Electronic connector Ivan Andrew McCracken, Brett Andrew Tomky 2015-04-28 $45,675,000
8966999 Pressure sensor linearization 2015-03-03 $20,156,000
8793418 Multi-drop serial bus with location detection and method 2014-07-29 $15,464,000
8754872 Capacitive touch controls lockout Avi R. Geiger, Andrew W. Hill, John David Schultz, Peter Kyriacou, Jan Raken 2014-06-17 $47,794,000
7561118 Multiplexing Geir Bjune, Maxwell DeHaven, Nikholas Hubbard, Mark D. Lund 2009-07-14 $29,986,000
6959980 ESD shielding of ink-jet printer Robert Lawrence Heberling, William J. Jennings 2005-11-01 $12,111,000