Eric L. Brechner — 11 Patents at Microsoft

Eric L. Brechner has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in June 2010. Eric L. Brechner ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Eric L. Brechner in Redmond, WA, US.

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Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
7730426	Visual thesaurus as applied to media clip searching	Dean A. Slawson, Tjeerd Hoek	2010-06-01	$13,800,000
7660808	Automatically indexing a collection of files of a selected type	Joel E. Wiljanen	2010-02-09	$23,520,000
7194127	Method and system for searching for images based on color and shape of a selected image	—	2007-03-20	$44,982,000
6970859	Searching and sorting media clips having associated style and attributes	Dean A. Slawson, David A. Vest, Krzysztof J. Cwalina, Glen Iwasaki, John Thrall +1 more	2005-11-29	$37,442,000
6944332	Method and system for searching for images based on color and shape of a selected image	—	2005-09-13	$44,038,000
6741996	Managing user clips	Joel E. Wiljanen	2004-05-25	$132,082,000
6606417	Method and system for searching for images based on color and shape of a selected image	—	2003-08-12	$92,752,000
6477269	Method and system for searching for images based on color and shape of a selected image	—	2002-11-05	$169,773,000
5825998	Method for controlling the level of detail displayed in a computer generated screen display of a complex structure	—	1998-10-20	$48,390,000
5613049	Method for creating spatially balanced bounding volume hierarchies for use in a computer generated display of a complex structure	Virgil Bourassa	1997-03-18	$66,394,000
5559941	Method for smoothly maintaining a vertical orientation during computer animation	—	1996-09-24

Eric L. Brechner — 11 Patents

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