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Kenneth Fern — 19 Patents

Microsoft: 19 patents #1,867 of 40,388Top 5%
Bellevue, WA: #608 of 6,950 inventorsTop 9%
Washington: #5,006 of 76,902 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Kenneth Fern has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in May 2022. Kenneth Fern ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Kenneth Fern in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2020.peak 82010: 2 patents20102013: 1 patents20132016: 1 patents20162017: 2 patents20172019: 3 patents20192020: 8 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11340769 Generating content items out of an electronic communication workflow Joseph Masterson, Jeremy de Souza, Jin Ma, Elena Catrinescu, Nathan F. Waddoups +3 more 2022-05-24 $214,502,000
10917370 Electronic communication-based storage of documents to support multiple workflows Joseph Masterson, Jeremy de Souza, Nathan F. Waddoups, Russell Simpson, Michael B. Palmer +2 more 2021-02-09 $275,728,000
10769365 Document history interface Alexander Darrow, Joseph Masterson 2020-09-08 $110,161,000
10769350 Document link previewing and permissioning while composing an email David L. Meyers, David Paul Limont, Michael B. Palmer, Betsy Y. McIntyre, Mirela Dal Col Silva Correa 2020-09-08 $110,161,000
10725622 Providing attachment control to manage attachments in conversation Joey Masterson, David Paul Limont, Hayley Lynn Steplyk 2020-07-28 $115,702,000
10725632 In-place contextual menu for handling actions for a listing of items Jeffrey K. Feiereisen, Yung-Cheng Chen, Ryan Thomas Murphy, Eva Britta Karolina Burlin, Michael Anthony Faoro +3 more 2020-07-28 $115,702,000
10698591 Immersive document interaction with device-aware scaling Joseph Masterson, Jeremy de Souza, Jin Ma, Elena Catrinescu, Nathan F. Waddoups +3 more 2020-06-30 $108,992,000
10650085 Providing interactive preview of content within communication Joey Masterson, Rebecca Jean Lawler, Hayley Lynn Steplyk 2020-05-12 $80,014,000
10627976 Smart notifications Zohaib Ali, Sara Manning L. M. Dawson, Joseph Masterson, Srinivasa Reddy Manda, Eduardo D. Melo +1 more 2020-04-21 $75,244,000
10586211 Shared collaboration objects Hayley Lynn Steplyk, Kathleen Rae Thompson, David Paul Limont, Joseph Masterson, Darren A. Apfel +1 more 2020-03-10 $83,394,000
10466882 Collaborative co-authoring via an electronic user interface Joseph Masterson, Nathan F. Waddoups, Mirela Dal Col Silva Correa, David L. Meyers, David Paul Limont +1 more 2019-11-05 $62,315,000
10404637 Electronic communication-based storage of documents to support multiple workflows Joseph Masterson, Jeremy de Souza, Nathan F. Waddoups, Russell Simpson, Michael B. Palmer +2 more 2019-09-03 $68,397,000
10379702 Providing attachment control to manage attachments in conversation Joey Masterson, David Paul Limont, Hayley Lynn Steplyk 2019-08-13 $69,160,000
9798769 Sharing document links from multiple data providers David L. Meyers, Michael B. Palmer, Betsy Y. McIntyre, Mirela Dal Col Silva Correa, David Paul Limont 2017-10-24 $48,823,000
9792014 In-place contextual menu for handling actions for a listing of items Jeffrey K. Feiereisen, Yung-Cheng Chen, Ryan Thomas Murphy, Eva Britta Karolina Burlin, Michael Anthony Faoro +3 more 2017-10-17 $48,646,000
9491177 Granting permissions to an object when adding people to a conversation David L. Meyers, David Paul Limont, Michael B. Palmer, Betsy Y. McIntyre, Mirela Dal Col Silva Correa 2016-11-08 $43,120,000
8495155 Enterprise management of public instant message communications Ryan Battle, Peter Ollodart, Austina M. De Bonte, Yikang Xu, Christer Lundin 2013-07-23 $26,254,000
7673001 Enterprise management of public instant message communications Ryan Battle, Peter Ollodart, Austina M. De Bonte, Yikang Xu, Christer Lundin 2010-03-02 $22,070,000
7647430 Remote command framework for devices Norman N. Ng, Michael Hart, David M. Miller, Jonathan Wilkins, Markham MacLin +3 more 2010-01-12 $31,942,000