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Ernest Pennington — 6 Patents

Microsoft: 6 patents #7,433 of 40,388Top 20%
Issaquah, WA: #448 of 1,767 inventorsTop 30%
Washington: #16,995 of 76,902 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Ernest Pennington has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in December 2014. Ernest Pennington ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Ernest Pennington in Issaquah, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2009.peak 22006: 1 patents20062009: 2 patents20092012: 1 patents20122014: 2 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8922479 Text input window with auto-growth Adrian Garside, Jeffrey W. Pettiross, Shawna Davis, Tobiasz Zielinski 2014-12-30 $26,363,000
8659658 Physical interaction zone for gesture-based user interfaces Ali Vassigh, Christian Klein 2014-02-25 $35,687,000
8147248 Gesture training Emily Rimas-Ribikauskas, Richard J. Duncan, Zoltan Szilagyi, Eric Fox, Shawna Davis +1 more 2012-04-03 $18,463,000
7551779 Word or character boundary-based scratch-out gesture recognition Adrian Garside, Takanobu Murayama, Tracy Schultz, Daphne Guericke, Shou-Ching Schilling 2009-06-23 $37,511,000
7477233 Method and system for providing modifier key behavior through pen gestures Richard J. Duncan, Emily Rimas-Ribikauskas, Robert J. Jarrett, Leroy B. Keely, Shawna Davis +2 more 2009-01-13 $27,818,000
7106312 Text input window with auto-growth Adrian Garside, Jeffrey W. Pettiross, Shawna Julie Davis, Tobiasz Zielinski 2006-09-12 $45,868,000