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Gary W. Flake — 79 Patents

Microsoft: 67 patents #174 of 40,388Top 1%
Salesforce: 8 patents #477 of 4,319Top 15%
NANec Laboratories America: 2 patents #142 of 412Top 35%
OSOverture Services: 1 patents #44 of 95Top 50%
YHYahoo Holdings: 1 patents #1,285 of 2,500Top 55%
Bellevue, WA: #89 of 6,950 inventorsTop 2%
Washington: #455 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #23,150 of 4,157,543Top 1%
79 Patents All Time
Gary W. Flake has been granted 79 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in April 2022. Gary W. Flake ranks #23,150 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.56%). Patent records list Gary W. Flake in Bellevue, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 79 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11314688 Providing access to transformed user data to maintain user privacy Gregory Thomas Pascale, Scott Rickard 2022-04-26 $123,544,000
11288338 Extracting a portion of a document, such as a page 2022-03-29 $180,814,000
10902459 Facilitating smart advertising on curated content-based networking websites in an on-demand services environment 2021-01-26 $93,504,000
10803493 System and method for aggregating web clipping data 2020-10-13 $120,712,000
10592569 Search guided by location and context William H. Gates, III, Eric J. Horvitz, Joshua T. Goodman, Surajit Chaudhuri, Trenholme J. Griffin +2 more 2020-03-17 $74,735,000
10503806 Extracting a portion of a document, such as a web page 2019-12-10 $115,366,000
10346882 System and method for aggregating web clipping data 2019-07-09 $97,914,000
10217294 Procedural authoring Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Brett D. Brewer, Steven M. Drucker, Karim Farouki, Stephen L. Lawler +2 more 2019-02-26 $52,330,000
9753926 Extracting a portion of a document, such as a web page Thomas J. Montgomery, Gregory Thomas Pascale, Kenneth J. Perkins, Mark R. Dawson 2017-09-05 $48,125,000
9746912 Transformations for virtual guest representation Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, William H. Gates, III, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Arnold Blinn, Christopher W. Brumme +10 more 2017-08-29 $34,413,000
9659406 Procedural authoring Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Brett D. Brewer, Steven M. Drucker, Karim Farouki, Stephen L. Lawler +2 more 2017-05-23 $34,380,000
9536004 Search guided by location and context William H. Gates, III, Eric J. Horvitz, Joshua T. Goodman, Surajit Chaudhuri, Trenholme J. Griffin +2 more 2017-01-03 $30,922,000
9430583 Extracting a portion of a document, such as a web page 2016-08-30 $72,886,000
9417779 Scrollable area multi-scale viewing Donald James Lindsay, Jeffrey Jon Weir, Brett D. Brewer 2016-08-16 $41,736,000
9396269 Search engine that identifies and uses social networks in communications, retrieval, and electronic commerce Christopher A. Meek, Eric J. Horvitz, Joshua T. Goodman, Oliver Hurst-Hiller, Anoop Gupta +6 more 2016-07-19 $45,858,000
9253047 Serialization of run-time state Debi P. Mishra, Amit Mital, Matthew Bret MacLaurin, Alexander G. Gounares, Ira L. Snyder, Jr. +1 more 2016-02-02 $33,611,000
9141704 Data management in social networks Christopher A. Meek, Eric J. Horvitz, Joshua T. Goodman, Oliver Hurst-Hiller, Anoop Gupta +6 more 2015-09-22 $38,392,000
9038912 Trade card services Tomasz Kasperkiewicz, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Brett D. Brewer, Steven M. Drucker, Karim Farouki +6 more 2015-05-26 $39,842,000
9007648 Updating old media with configurable entities Eric J. Horvitz, Lili Cheng 2015-04-14 $23,635,000
8943420 Augmenting a field of view Flora P. Goldthwaite, Brett D. Brewer, Eric I-Chao Chang, Jonathan C. Cluts, Karim Farouki +5 more 2015-01-27 $25,395,000
8874592 Search guided by location and context William H. Gates, III, Eric J. Horvitz, Joshua T. Goodman, Surajit Chaudhuri, Trenholme J. Griffin +2 more 2014-10-28 $24,713,000
8812534 Machine assisted query formulation John C. Platt, Oliver Hurst-Hiller, Trenholme J. Griffin, Anoop Gupta, Ramez Naam +1 more 2014-08-19 $30,011,000
8805720 Feedback loop for consumer transactions Jeffrey R. Hemmen, Alexander G. Gounares, David M. Chickering, Eric J. Horvitz, Michael Connolly +3 more 2014-08-12 $19,073,000
8799077 Ad integration and extensible themes for operating systems Lili Cheng, Michael Connolly, Alexander G. Gounares, Jeffrey R. Hemmen, Eric J. Horvitz +2 more 2014-08-05 $23,036,000
8788517 Intelligently guiding search based on user dialog Eric J. Horvitz, William H. Gates, III, Joshua T. Goodman, Bradly A. Brunell, Oliver Hurst-Hiller +3 more 2014-07-22 $26,287,000