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Erik Ashby — 7 Patents

Microsoft: 6 patents #7,433 of 40,388Top 20%
Bellevue, WA: #1,572 of 6,950 inventorsTop 25%
Washington: #14,787 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Erik Ashby has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in August 2022. Erik Ashby ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Erik Ashby in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2017.peak 22010: 1 patents20102014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents20152017: 2 patents20172019: 1 patents20192022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11405504 System and methods for using real-time context to proactively start a communication with a customer through a different device Abinash Tripathy, Adityo Deshmukh 2022-08-02
10469432 Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums for configuring electronic messaging applications Daniel Paul Costenaro, Robert Novitskey, Bryan T. Starbuck, Harvey Rook 2019-11-05 $62,315,000
9712479 Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums for configuring electronic messaging applications Daniel Paul Costenaro, Robert Novitskey, Bryan T. Starbuck, Harvey Rook 2017-07-18 $33,270,000
9590880 Dynamic collection analysis and reporting of telemetry data Eric Smith, George Arthur Herbert, III, Danny Thayer, Bruce Wiedeman, Larry Israel +7 more 2017-03-07 $28,472,000
9063993 Coexistence tools for synchronizing properties between on-premises customer locations and remote hosting services Vineeth Madhusudanan, Anandhi Somasekaran, Ananda Sinha, Murli Satagopan, Edward Wu +3 more 2015-06-23 $32,988,000
8898308 Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums for configuring electronic messaging applications Daniel Paul Costenaro, Robert Novitskey, Bryan T. Starbuck, Harvey Rook 2014-11-25 $27,855,000
7788328 Cross-forest sharing Rajesh Ramanathan, Daniel Paul Costenaro 2010-08-31 $11,672,000