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John M. Thornton — 27 Patents

Microsoft: 26 patents #1,112 of 40,388Top 3%
TRTruaxis: 1 patents #4 of 7Top 60%
Redmond, WA: #371 of 8,547 inventorsTop 5%
Washington: #3,049 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
John M. Thornton has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in November 2021. John M. Thornton ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list John M. Thornton in Redmond, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11176528 Securing customized third-party content within a computing environment configured to enable third-party hosting Jason Cahill 2021-11-16 $286,400,000
10565572 Securing customized third-party content within a computing environment configured to enable third-party hosting Jason Cahill 2020-02-18 $61,429,000
10504126 System and method of obtaining merchant sales information for marketing or sales teams Nilesh V. Kulkarni, Samir Kothari 2019-12-10
10073579 Techniques to share media files through messaging Ojiakonobi Udezue, Rodger Benson, Jennifer Shen, Dave Citron, Tatjana Fournier +6 more 2018-09-11 $66,069,000
9020183 Tagging images with labels Karthik G. Anbalagan, Scott R. Ramsby, Chunkit Jacky Chan, Michael Kim, Timothy R. O'Connor +5 more 2015-04-28 $45,675,000
8867779 Image tagging user interface Karthik G. Anbalagan, Scott R. Ramsby, Chunkit Jacky Chan, Michael Kim, Timothy R. O'Connor +11 more 2014-10-21 $25,843,000
D711401 Display screen with graphical user interface Shane Hartley, Jason Cahill 2014-08-19
D711403 Display screen with graphical user interface Shane Hartley, Jason Cahill 2014-08-19
D711402 Display screen with graphical user interface Jason Cahill 2014-08-19
D706290 Display screen with icon Shane Hartley, Jason Cahill 2014-06-03
D705252 Display screen with graphical user interface Jason Cahill 2014-05-20
D701878 Display screen with graphical user interface Jason Cahill 2014-04-01
D701517 Display screen with animated graphical user interface Jason Cahill 2014-03-25
D701518 Display screen with animated graphical user interface Jason Cahill 2014-03-25
D700205 Display screen with graphical user interface Shane Hartley, Jason Cahill 2014-02-25
8577872 Selection of photos based on tagging history Alexander Schokking 2013-11-05 $39,616,000
D682877 Display screen with icon set Shane Hartley 2013-05-21
D682882 Display screen with icon Jason Cahill 2013-05-21
8396246 Tagging images with labels Karthik G. Anbalagan, Scott R. Ramsby, Chunkit Jacky Chan, Michael Kim, Timothy R. O'Connor +5 more 2013-03-12 $20,251,000
8397156 Organizing documents through utilization of people tags Alexander S. Brodie, Bryan P. Ferguson, Ananda Narayanan Pulamanthole Pisharathu, Samuel J. Pinson, Shanjeef Satchithanantham 2013-03-12 $20,251,000
8359361 Techniques to share media files through messaging Ojiakonobi Udezue, Rodger Benson, Jennifer Shen, Dave Citron, Tatjana Fournier +6 more 2013-01-22 $23,352,000
8041738 Strongly typed tags Jason Flaks, Ryan Kabir 2011-10-18 $29,419,000
7912860 Strongly typed tags Jason Flaks, Ryan Kabir 2011-03-22 $15,289,000
7647361 Automatically maintaining metadata in a file backup system David R. Parlin, Eric J. Wright 2010-01-12 $31,942,000
7620215 Applying localized image effects of varying intensity David R. Parlin, Michael Kim, Michael J. Gilmore 2009-11-17 $30,079,000