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John C. Whytock — 13 Patents

Microsoft: 13 patents #3,175 of 40,388Top 8%
Portland, OR: #1,397 of 9,213 inventorsTop 20%
Oregon: #3,363 of 28,073 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
John C. Whytock has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in September 2025. John C. Whytock ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list John C. Whytock in Portland, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2011 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2015.peak 22011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents20122014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents20152017: 1 patents20172019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents20202023: 2 patents20232024: 1 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12423046 Secondary display location determinations Gary De-Hong Liao, Yilin Song, Michael Paul Erich Von Hippel, Nina Emi Rothenhaus, Sankalp Gupta +5 more 2025-09-23
12360660 Intent and target determination for digital handwriting input Haley McColgan, Roland Radtke, Nathan Pollock, Parthasarathy Sundararajan, Elizabeth Todaro 2025-07-15
11989480 Secondary display location determinations Gary De-Hong Liao, Yilin Song, Michael Paul Erich Von Hippel, Nina Emi Rothenhaus, Sankalp Gupta +5 more 2024-05-21 $471,696,000
11734032 Virtual desktop switching and communications Christiaan BRINKHOFF, Sandeep Patnaik, Jinhua FEI, Prasanna Padmanabhan, Randall R. Cook +5 more 2023-08-22 $347,292,000
11580088 Creation, management, and transfer of interaction representation sets Michael J. Novak, Brian R. Meyers, Anshul Rawat, Valerie Louise Wang 2023-02-14 $225,543,000
10579250 Arranging tiles Chantal M. Leonard, Holger Kuehnle, Rebecca Deutsch, Patrice L. Miner 2020-03-03 $64,161,000
10261655 Least disruptive icon displacement Andres Antonio Toussaint 2019-04-16 $47,495,000
9785310 Control of addition of representations to an application launcher Poorva Singal, Harnoor Singh 2017-10-10 $29,796,000
9015614 Virtual keyboard text replication Ali Vassigh, Sabrina Boler 2015-04-21 $29,497,000
8935631 Arranging tiles Chantal M. Leonard, Holger Kuehnle, Rebecca Deutsch, Patrice L. Miner 2015-01-13 $32,048,000
8687023 Cross-slide gesture to select and rearrange Jan-Kristian Markiewicz, Gerrit H. Hofmeester, Orry Wijanarko Soegiono, Jon Gabriel Clapper, Jennifer Marie Wolfe +3 more 2014-04-01 $35,800,000
8327285 Virtual keyboard text replication Ali Vassigh, Sabrina Boler 2012-12-04 $15,162,000
8078984 Virtual keyboard text replication Ali Vassigh, Sabrina Boler 2011-12-13 $13,784,000

Frequent Collaborators

Chantal M. Leonard3 shared
Sabrina Boler3 shared
Holger Kuehnle3 shared
Gary De-Hong Liao3 shared
Ali Vassigh3 shared
Sankalp Gupta2 shared

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