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Eric Joel Stollnitz — 18 Patents

Microsoft: 11 patents #3,886 of 40,388Top 10%
ASAlias Systems: 2 patents #1 of 8Top 15%
Adobe: 2 patents #1,606 of 4,589Top 35%
Uber Technologies: 1 patents #644 of 909Top 75%
AUAutodesk: 1 patents #540 of 1,046Top 55%
UWUniversity Of Washington: 1 patents #985 of 2,234Top 45%
Kirkland, WA: #306 of 3,517 inventorsTop 9%
Washington: #5,373 of 76,902 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Eric Joel Stollnitz has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in March 2025. Eric Joel Stollnitz ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Eric Joel Stollnitz in Kirkland, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2006.peak 21999: 1 patents19992005: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12254163 Object folding tool Michal Lukac, Amanda Ghassaei, Wilmot Wei-Mau Li, Vidya Narayanan, Daniel Kaufman 2025-03-18
11402963 Neighboring panel view Amanda Ghassaei, Michal Luká{hacek over (c)}, Wilmot Wei-Mau Li, Vidya Narayanan, Daniel Kaufman 2022-08-02 $170,999,000
10951819 Image capture and ordering Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Markus Unger, Donald A. Barnett, David M. Gedye, Sudipta Narayan Sinha +1 more 2021-03-16 $232,547,000
9973697 Image capture and ordering Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Markus Unger, Donald A. Barnett, David M. Gedye, Sudipta Narayan Sinha +1 more 2018-05-15 $80,339,000
9712746 Image capture and ordering Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Markus Unger, Donald A. Barnett, David M. Gedye, Sudipta Narayan Sinha +1 more 2017-07-18 $33,270,000
9305371 Translated view navigation for visualizations Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Markus Unger, Donald A. Barnett, Sudipta Narayan Sinha, Johannes Peter Kopf +2 more 2016-04-05
9092437 Experience streams for rich interactive narratives Joseph M. Joy, Narendranath Datha, Aditya Sankar, Vinay Krishnaswamy, Sujith Radhakrishnan Warrier +2 more 2015-07-28 $31,589,000
9025860 Three-dimensional object browsing in documents Geoffrey G. Zweig, Richard Szeliski, Sudipta Narayan Sinha, Johannes Peter Kopf 2015-05-05 $43,588,000
8675049 Navigation model to render centered objects using images Johannes Peter Kopf, Sudipta Narayan Sinha, Rick Szeliski 2014-03-18 $35,700,000
8610741 Rendering aligned perspective images Richard Szeliski, Johannes Peter Kopf, Michael F. Cohen 2013-12-17 $25,958,000
7499060 Robust interactive color editing Devon Strawn, Henry Sowizral 2009-03-03 $17,333,000
7427994 Color gradient paths Michel Gangnet, Michael Kallay, Andrew Y. Wu, Devon Strawn, John Michael Lounsbery +1 more 2008-09-23 $44,086,000
7312801 Hardware accelerated blend modes 2007-12-25
7170516 Approximation of Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces by Bezier patches Richard E. Rice 2007-01-30 $77,576,000
7038697 Color gradient paths Michel Gangnet, Michael Kallay, Andrew Y. Wu, Devon Strawn, John Michael Lounsbery +1 more 2006-05-02 $35,079,000
6989830 Accurate boolean operations for subdivision surfaces and relaxed fitting Peter Leipa 2006-01-24
6950099 Approximation of Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces by Bezier patches Richard E. Rice 2005-09-27
5982924 Method and system for reproducing color images as duotones Joanna L. Power, Brad S. West, David Salesin 1999-11-09