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Eric R. Soldan — 14 Patents

Microsoft: 14 patents #2,871 of 40,388Top 8%
Saratoga, CA: #676 of 2,933 inventorsTop 25%
California: #43,920 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Eric R. Soldan has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in December 2015. Eric R. Soldan ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Eric R. Soldan in Saratoga, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2014.peak 62009: 1 patents20092011: 1 patents20112013: 4 patents20132014: 6 patents20142015: 2 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9209987 Social media playback Alan G. Bishop 2015-12-08 $46,233,000
9094564 Clock synchronization for shared media playback 2015-07-28 $31,589,000
8885878 Interactive secret sharing Bradley R. Pettit, Relja Markovic 2014-11-11 $24,503,000
8881010 Adapting trick commands to prior usage 2014-11-04 $37,690,000
8825809 Asset resolvable bookmarks Bradley R. Pettit 2014-09-02 $31,345,000
8786547 Effects of gravity on gestures Kenneth G. Oetzel 2014-07-22 $26,287,000
8707342 Referencing data in triggers from applications Bradley R. Pettit 2014-04-22 $23,747,000
8638222 Controllable device selection based on controller location Bradley R. Pettit, Nosherwan Minwalla, Nicolae Surpatanu 2014-01-28 $35,401,000
8572375 Device pairing based on graphically encoded data Alan G. Bishop 2013-10-29 $25,404,000
8549397 Hierarchical bit stream markup compilation and rendering Steven J. Falkenburg, Tantek Celik, Bradley R. Pettit 2013-10-01 $29,148,000
8539331 Editable bookmarks shared via a social network Bradley R. Pettit, Nosherwan Minwalla, Nicolae Surpatanu 2013-09-17 $24,820,000
8462997 User-specific attribute customization Bradley R. Pettit, Nosherwan Minwalla, Alan G. Bishop, Nicolae Surpatanu 2013-06-11 $24,362,000
7937382 Triggers for time-shifted content playback Bradley R. Pettit, Nicolae Surpatanu, James Armand Baldwin 2011-05-03 $28,388,000
7627814 Hierarchical bit stream markup compilation and rendering Steven J. Falkenburg, Tantek Celik, Bradley R. Pettit 2009-12-01 $28,638,000