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John Michael Snyder — 62 Patents

Microsoft: 59 patents #242 of 40,388Top 1%
EWEast Jordan Iron Works: 1 patents #10 of 24Top 45%
Redmond, WA: #72 of 8,547 inventorsTop 1%
Washington: #745 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #36,550 of 4,157,543Top 1%
62 Patents All Time
John Michael Snyder has been granted 62 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in June 2025. John Michael Snyder ranks #36,550 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.88%). Patent records list John Michael Snyder in Redmond, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 62 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12327320 Geometry-aware spatial interpolation Michael George Chemistruck, Nikunj Raghuvanshi 2025-06-10
11877143 Parameterized modeling of coherent and incoherent sound Nikunj Raghuvanshi, Andrew S. Allen 2024-01-16 $353,435,000
11595773 Bidirectional propagation of sound Nikunj Raghuvanshi, Keith William Godin, Chakravarty Reddy Alla Chaitanya 2023-02-28 $221,092,000
11412340 Bidirectional propagation of sound Nikunj Raghuvanshi, Keith William Godin, Chakravarty Reddy Alla Chaitanya 2022-08-09 $332,407,000
10932081 Bidirectional propagation of sound Nikunj Raghuvanshi, Keith William Godin, Chakravarty Reddy Alla Chaitanya 2021-02-23 $152,813,000
10602298 Directional propagation Nikunj Raghuvanshi 2020-03-24 $62,609,000
10311163 Non-parametric microfacet factor models for isotropic bidirectional reflectance distribution functions Mahdi MohammadBagher, Derek Nowrouzezahrai 2019-06-04 $61,829,000
9727991 Foveated image rendering Brian K. Guenter, Mark Finch, Steven M. Drucker, Desney S. Tan 2017-08-08 $27,985,000
9510125 Parametric wave field coding for real-time sound propagation for dynamic sources Nikunj Raghuvanshi 2016-11-29 $32,020,000
9432790 Real-time sound propagation for dynamic sources Nikunj Raghuvanshi, Ming-Chieh Lin, Naga K. Govindaraju 2016-08-30 $26,338,000
9098945 Modeling anisotropic surface reflectance with microfacet synthesis Jiaping Wang, Shuang Zhao, Xin Tong, Baining Guo 2015-08-04 $40,584,000
8953037 Obtaining spatially varying bidirectional reflectance distribution function Jiaping Wang, Baining Guo, Peiran Ren, Xin Tong 2015-02-10 $22,754,000
8917284 Vector graphics with controlled thin-plate splines Mark Finch, Hugues Hoppe 2014-12-23 $35,011,000
8737769 Reconstruction of sparse data Mark Finch, Hugues Hoppe, Yonatan Wexler 2014-05-27 $33,362,000
8570522 Capturing reflected light from a sampling surface Jiaping Wang, Moshe Benezra, Xin Tong, Baining Guo 2013-10-29 $25,404,000
8253754 Sampling-efficient mapping of images Don P. Mitchell 2012-08-28 $15,180,000
8248613 Capturing reflected light from a sampling surface Jiaping Wang, Moshe Benezra, Xin Tong, Baining Guo 2012-08-21 $14,505,000
7956870 Systems and methods for providing image rendering using variable rate source sampling John Turner Whitted, William Thomas Blank, Kirk Olynyk 2011-06-07 $21,540,000
7948490 Hardware-accelerated computation of radiance transfer coefficients in computer graphics Peter-Pike Sloan 2011-05-24 $18,620,000
7940269 Real-time rendering of light-scattering media Kun Zhou, Qiming Hou, Minmin Gong, Baining Guo, Heung-Yeung Shum 2011-05-10 $16,362,000
7940268 Real-time rendering of light-scattering media Kun Zhou, Qiming Hou, Minmin Gong, Baining Guo, Heung-Yeung Shum 2011-05-10 $16,362,000
7768524 Systems and methods for providing image rendering using variable rate source sampling John Turner Whitted, William Thomas Blank, Kirk Olynyk 2010-08-03 $11,892,000
7633503 Local, deformable precomputed radiance transfer Ben F. Luna, Peter-Pike Sloan 2009-12-15 $20,279,000
7609265 Graphics image rendering with radiance self-transfer for low-frequency lighting environments Peter-Pike Sloan, Jan Kautz 2009-10-27 $39,185,000
7589725 Soft shadows in dynamic scenes Peter-Pike Sloan, Baining Guo, Kun Zhou, Rui Wang, Xinguo Liu +2 more 2009-09-15 $22,769,000