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John Helmes — 52 Patents

Microsoft: 52 patents #308 of 40,388Top 1%
Aan de Bergen, NL: #1 of 5 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #50,240 of 4,157,543Top 2%
52 Patents All Time
John Helmes has been granted 52 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in October 2025. John Helmes ranks #50,240 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list John Helmes in Aan de Bergen, NL.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 52 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D1096735 Computing input device Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2025-10-07
D1085099 Thumb support for a mouse Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2025-07-22
D1083914 Hub Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2025-07-15
D1075759 Mouse Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2025-05-20
12105896 Computer mouse module Paul KOS, Nicholas Yen-Cherng Chen, Michael Hall, Stephen E. Hodges, James Alexander Devine +2 more 2024-10-01 $328,958,000
D1037252 Computing input device Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-07-30
D1036444 Computing input device Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-07-23
D1036436 Computing input device Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-07-23
D1034605 Computing input device kit Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-07-09
D1028986 Computing input device Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-05-28
D1028981 Support for a mouse Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-05-28
D1025987 Mouse with thumb support Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-05-07
D1025066 Mouse Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-04-30
D1025065 Thumb support for a mouse Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-04-30
D1025070 Mouse Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-04-30
D1025069 Mouse Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-04-30
D1025068 Mouse Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-04-30
D1025067 Body attachment for a mouse Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-04-30
D1019649 Joystick for a computing input device Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-03-26
D1019666 Button for a computing input device Aditha May Adams, Simon Cameron Dearsley, Go Osaki, Hongshan Sun 2024-03-26
11561322 Use of thermopiles to detect human location Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, James Scott, Rinku Sreedhar, Hanchuan Li 2023-01-24 $221,394,000
10942615 Reconfigurable clip-on modules for mobile computing devices Stuart Taylor, Stephen E. Hodges, Nicolas Villar, James W. Scott 2021-03-09 $234,441,000
10853275 Data transfer between host and peripheral devices Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, James W. Scott, Stephen E. Hodges, Nicholas Yen-Cherng Chen, Stuart Taylor +4 more 2020-12-01 $114,800,000
10606934 Generation of a modified UI element tree James W. Scott, Stuart Taylor, Stephen E. Hodges, Nicholas Yen-Cherng Chen, Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl +5 more 2020-03-31 $74,701,000
10564793 Reconfigurable clip-on modules for mobile computing devices Stuart Taylor, Stephen E. Hodges, Nicolas Villar, James W. Scott 2020-02-18 $61,429,000