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Edward Tau — 3 Patents

Microsoft: 2 patents #17,644 of 40,388Top 45%
MIT: 1 patents #4,386 of 9,367Top 50%
San Jose, CA: #14,697 of 32,062 inventorsTop 50%
California: #150,760 of 386,348 inventorsTop 40%
Overall (All Time): #1,328,092 of 4,157,543Top 35%
3 Patents All Time
Edward Tau has been granted 3 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in May 2016. Edward Tau ranks #1,328,092 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 31.9%). Patent records list Edward Tau in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1998.peak 11998: 1 patents19982015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–3 of 3 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9336333 Searching and reference checking within social networks Allen Blue, James Duncan Work 2016-05-10 $94,087,000
9043405 Method of leveraging social networking with a messaging client Eric Ly, James Duncan Work 2015-05-26 $99,378,000
5742180 Dynamically programmable gate array with multiple contexts Andre DeHon, Thomas F. Knight, Jr., Michael Bolotski, Ian Eslick, Derrick Chen +1 more 1998-04-21