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James A. Pittman — 7 Patents

Microsoft: 4 patents #10,758 of 40,388Top 30%
Apple: 2 patents #9,294 of 18,612Top 50%
MTMicroelectronic & Computer Technology: 1 patents #56 of 112Top 50%
Austin, TX: #4,441 of 18,064 inventorsTop 25%
Texas: #21,608 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
James A. Pittman has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in April 2013. James A. Pittman ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list James A. Pittman in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1996.peak 11996: 1 patents19962002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents20052008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents20102013: 1 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8428358 Radical-base classification of East Asian handwriting Frank James Eisenhart, III, Patrice Y. Simard 2013-04-23 $18,172,000
7760946 Handwriting teaching data selection system Erik M. Geidl 2010-07-20 $20,395,000
7428516 Handwriting recognition using neural networks Mitica Manu 2008-09-23 $44,086,000
6956969 Methods and apparatuses for handwriting recognition Gareth Loudon, Yi-Min Wu 2005-10-18 $217,421,000
6556712 Methods and apparatus for handwriting recognition Gareth Loudon, Yi-Min Wu 2003-04-29 $22,293,000
6393395 Handwriting and speech recognizer using neural network with separate start and continuation output scores Angshuman Guha, Patrick Haluptzok 2002-05-21 $148,404,000
5500905 Pattern recognition neural network with saccade-like operation Gale L. Martin, Mosfeq Rashid 1996-03-19