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John Tilford — 8 Patents

Microsoft: 8 patents #5,580 of 40,388Top 15%
Seattle, WA: #3,798 of 21,776 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #13,119 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
John Tilford has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in August 2020. John Tilford ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list John Tilford in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2010.peak 22008: 1 patents20082010: 2 patents20102015: 1 patents20152017: 1 patents20172019: 2 patents20192020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10754645 Displaying results of a codebase analysis service Deborah Chen, Mark Alistair WILSON-THOMAS, Simon Calvert, Kesavan Shanmugam 2020-08-25 $144,218,000
10481879 Code development using continued machine learnings Joshua Bates Stevens, Guillermo Serrato Castilla, Srivatsn Narayanan, Simon Calvert, Mark Alistair WILSON-THOMAS +4 more 2019-11-19 $64,062,000
10331289 Inline display and preview of related information for elements in a document Monty Lee Hammontree, Murali Krishna Hosabettu Kamalesha, Brandon Adams, Steven John Clarke, Oleg Tkachenko +3 more 2019-06-25 $55,928,000
9785302 Inline display and preview of related information for elements in a document Monty Lee Hammontree, Murali Krishna Hosabettu Kamalesha, Brandon Adams, Steven John Clarke, Oleg Tkachenko +3 more 2017-10-10 $29,796,000
9189208 Inline display and preview of related information for elements in a document Monty Lee Hammontree, Murali Krishna Hosabettu Kamalesha, Brandon Adams, Steven John Clarke, Oleg Tkachenko +3 more 2015-11-17 $49,804,000
7721196 Arbitrary rendering of visual elements on a code editor Randy S. Kimmerly, Vijaye Ganesh Raji 2010-05-18 $13,421,000
7675527 Multisource composable projection of text 2010-03-09 $20,400,000
7333965 Classifying text in a code editor using multiple classifiers Randy S. Kimmerly, Vijaye Ganesh Raji 2008-02-19 $39,124,000