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Heather Ferguson — 8 Patents

Microsoft: 8 patents #5,580 of 40,388Top 15%
Centralia, WA: #3 of 34 inventorsTop 9%
Washington: #13,119 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Heather Ferguson has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in June 2012. Heather Ferguson ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Heather Ferguson in Centralia, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2009.peak 22007: 1 patents20072009: 2 patents20092010: 2 patents20102011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8196051 Shared online experience history capture and provision system and method Melora Zaner, Eun-Kyung Chung, Geoffrey John Elliott, Tammy Savage, Jonathan Sposato +2 more 2012-06-05 $14,199,000
7991734 Remote pointing Seung-Hae Park, Rachel Karin Popkin 2011-08-02 $22,196,000
7895524 Integrated experience of vogue system and method for shared integrated online social interaction Melora Zaner, Kathleen P. Mulcahy, Erica Sanders, Cesare John Saretto, Eugene Zarahovsky +7 more 2011-02-22 $24,106,000
7747956 Integrated experience of vogue system and method for shared integrated online social interaction Melora Zaner, Kathleen P. Mulcahy, Erica Sanders, Cesare John Saretto, Eugene Zarahovsky +7 more 2010-06-29 $14,156,000
7689922 Integrated experience of vogue system and method for shared integrated online social interaction Melora Zaner, Kathleen P. Mulcahy, Erica Sanders, Cesare John Saretto, Eugene Zarahovsky +7 more 2010-03-30 $17,166,000
7571213 Interactive electronic bubble messaging Joseph Walkush, Melora Zaner, Tammy Savage, Eun-Kyung Chung, Caroline Rockey +2 more 2009-08-04 $28,843,000
7530028 Shared online experience encapsulation system and method Kathleen P. Mulcahy, Eun-Kyung Chung, Geoffrey John Elliott, Asta Roseway, Tammy Savage +1 more 2009-05-05 $21,029,000
7234117 System and method for shared integrated online social interaction Melora Zaner, Kathleen P. Mulcahy, Erica Sanders, Cesare John Saretto, Eugene Zarakhovsky +7 more 2007-06-19 $46,980,000