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Edwin Thorne, III — 22 Patents

Microsoft: 11 patents #3,886 of 40,388Top 10%
IDIdeo Product Development: 2 patents #6 of 22Top 30%
Amazon: 2 patents #7,232 of 19,158Top 40%
LOLogitech: 1 patents #48 of 121Top 40%
Qualcomm: 1 patents #7,593 of 12,104Top 65%
Seattle, WA: #1,183 of 21,776 inventorsTop 6%
Washington: #4,130 of 76,902 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Edwin Thorne, III has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in December 2025. Edwin Thorne, III ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Edwin Thorne, III in Seattle, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12511636 Item return for customized retail environments Christopher M. Gil, Sachin Rajendra Kothari, Wenbo Cui, Pyotr Belov, Nathan Pius O'Neill 2025-12-30
12406225 Devices for monitoring inventory within enclosures Jun Ai, Rani Awale, Andre D. Brown, Kavitha Lingamoorthy, Ajay Kumar Ponnuswamy +2 more 2025-09-02
7340472 Organizing and storing hierarchical data in a database having dual structures Eric J. Makus, Robert L. Usibelli, Sean M. Usibelli, Wayne Johnson 2008-03-04
6926577 Underwater device and method of play 2005-08-09
6757673 Displaying hierarchial relationship of data accessed via subject index Eric J. Makus, Robert L. Usibelli, Sean M. Usibelli, Wayne Johnson 2004-06-29
6554674 Water-skimming disc 2003-04-29
6241570 Hydrodynamic throwing disc 2001-06-05
6239968 Detachable case for an electronic organizer Daniel Kim, Dennis J. Boyle, Markus Diebel, Elisha Avraham Tal 2001-05-29
6119991 Racing wheel clamp David McVicar 2000-09-19 $2,054,000
D426236 Detachable case Daniel Kim, Dennis J. Boyle, Markus Diebel, Elisha Avraham Tal 2000-06-06
6008735 Method and system for programming a remote control unit John H. Chiloyan 1999-12-28 $310,134,000
D411823 Wall mounted battery charger Paul E. Jacobs, Susan M. Hennenfent, John K. M. Lee, John E. Maloney, Raymond Rocha 1999-07-06
5805165 Method of selecting a displayed control item Patrick Michael Volk 1998-09-08 $197,698,000
5790115 System for character entry on a display screen Sven Pleyer, JoGene Kapell, Steven Roren Wallace, Daniel James Brown 1998-08-04 $271,217,000
5731844 Television scheduling system for displaying a grid representing scheduled layout and selecting a programming parameter for display or recording Adam Christopher Rauch, Gregory Riker, Nathan P. Myhrvold 1998-03-24 $351,223,000
D387352 Remote control Steven T. Kaneko, Scott Plank, Rick Vaughan Lewis, Jr. 1997-12-09
5687331 Method and system for displaying an animated focus item Patrick Michael Volk, Michael Robin, JoGene Kapell 1997-11-11 $555,993,000
5673401 Systems and methods for a customizable sprite-based graphical user interface Patrick Michael Volk, Michael Robin, JoGene Kapell 1997-09-30 $354,129,000
5670955 Method and apparatus for generating directional and force vector in an input device Mark T. Hanson, John P. Pennock, Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes 1997-09-23 $1,112,223,000
5648824 Video control user interface for controlling display of a video Matthew Dunn, Joseph H. Matthews, III 1997-07-15 $251,427,000
D372716 Remote control 1996-08-13
5517257 Video control user interface for interactive television systems and method for controlling display of a video movie Matthew Dunn, Joseph H. Matthews, III 1996-05-14 $180,316,000