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Kenneth Lynn Crocker — 11 Patents

Microsoft: 11 patents #3,886 of 40,388Top 10%
Sammamish, WA: #473 of 2,558 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #9,483 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Kenneth Lynn Crocker has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in August 2020. Kenneth Lynn Crocker ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Kenneth Lynn Crocker in Sammamish, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2008.peak 32005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents20072008: 3 patents20082014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents20152019: 1 patents20192020: 2 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10732796 Control of displayed activity information using navigational mnemonics Thomas H. Alphin, III, Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton, Brian R. Meyers, Michael J. Novak 2020-08-04 $112,873,000
10671245 Collection and control of user activity set data and activity set user interface Thomas H. Alphin, III, Brian R. Meyers, Michael J. Novak, Valerie Louise Wang 2020-06-02 $84,040,000
10467230 Collection and control of user activity information and activity user interface Thomas H. Alphin, III, Brian R. Meyers, Michael J. Novak 2019-11-05 $62,315,000
9146778 Management of background tasks Rachel Jiang, Rhon Manlapaz, Megan Donahue, Dawn Wilson, Darin Miller +2 more 2015-09-29 $56,898,000
8886976 Management of background tasks Rachel Jiang, Rhon Manlapaz, Megan Donahue, Dawn Wilson, Darin Miller +2 more 2014-11-11 $24,503,000
7415474 Programmable calculation engine Kanchan Mitra, Anna Timasheva, Dipan Dewan, Robert E. Corrington, David V. Gunter 2008-08-19 $63,421,000
7394821 System and method for maintaining network system information Wei Jiang, Gurdeep S. Pall, Bernard Aboba, Narendra C. Gidwani 2008-07-01 $27,605,000
7379935 Programmable calculation engine Kanchan Mitra, Anna Timasheva, Dipan Dewan, Robert E. Corrington, David V. Gunter 2008-05-27 $21,072,000
7254136 Beacon protocol for internet connection sharing devices David V. Gunter, Dennis Morgan, Eduard Guzovsky, Richard Lamb, Bruce E. Johnson 2007-08-07 $32,411,000
7107277 Programmable calculation engine Kanchan Mitra, Anna Timasheva, Dipan Dewan, Robert E. Corrington, David V. Gunter 2006-09-12 $45,868,000
6850528 System and method for maintaining network system information Wei Jiang, Gurdeep S. Pall, Bernard Aboba, Narendra C. Gidwani 2005-02-01 $57,608,000