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Kirt Debique — 41 Patents

Microsoft: 39 patents #537 of 40,388Top 2%
Seattle, WA: #417 of 21,776 inventorsTop 2%
Washington: #1,578 of 76,902 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #75,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
41 Patents All Time
Kirt Debique has been granted 41 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in July 2022. Kirt Debique ranks #75,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.8%). Patent records list Kirt Debique in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2009.peak 91997: 1 patents19972004: 1 patents2005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents2007: 5 patents20072008: 5 patents2009: 9 patents20092010: 8 patents2011: 5 patents20112013: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 41 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11379518 Detecting musical references in natural language search input 2022-07-05
10839008 System and method for natural language music search 2020-11-17
9363481 Protected media pipeline Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Chadd B. Knowlton, James M. Alkove, Geoffrey Dunbar, Sumedh N. Barde 2016-06-07 $39,883,000
9189605 Protected computing environment Sumedh N. Barde, Jonathan Schwartz, Reid Kuhn, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Chadd B. Knowlton +7 more 2015-11-17 $49,804,000
8463776 Image file container Geoffrey Dunbar, Joseph D. Ternasky, William M. Crow 2013-06-11 $24,362,000
8024302 Meta data management for media content objects David E. Stewart, Gabriel S. DeBacker, Nosakhare D. Omoigui 2011-09-20 $12,393,000
7941739 Timeline source Sohail Baig Mohammed, Shafiq Rahman, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Xiqiang Zhi, Adil Sherwani +4 more 2011-05-10 $16,362,000
7934159 Media timeline Shafiq Rahman, Sohail Baig Mohammed, Michael J. Novak, Adil Sherwani, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch +3 more 2011-04-26 $19,159,000
7900140 Media processing methods, systems and application program interfaces Sohail Baig Mohammed, Geoffrey Dunbar, Patrick N. Nelson, Rebecca C. Weiss, Sumedh N. Barde +3 more 2011-03-01 $18,854,000
7882510 Demultiplexer application programming interface Robin Speed, C. Ludwig, Geoffrey Dunbar 2011-02-01 $15,193,000
7792806 Rate change Geoffrey Dunbar, Glenn F. Evans, Robin Speed, Stephen C. Rowe, Rebecca C. Weiss +1 more 2010-09-07 $16,550,000
7774375 Media foundation topology Eric Rudolph, Geoffrey Dunbar, Sohail Baig Mohammed, Brian Crites, Robin Speed +1 more 2010-08-10 $15,662,000
7739505 Linking Diffie Hellman with HFS authentication by using a seed Kenneth Reneris, David J. Marsh, David R. Blythe 2010-06-15 $15,264,000
7735096 Destination application program interfaces Rebecca C. Weiss, Dale A. Sather, Mei L. Wilson, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Robin Speed +1 more 2010-06-08 $16,528,000
7725920 Media foundation media sink Rebecca C. Weiss, Robin Speed, James H. Dooley, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Eduardo P. Oliveira 2010-05-25 $21,030,000
7712108 Media processing methods, systems and application program interfaces Sohail Baig Mohammed, Geoffrey Dunbar, Patrick N. Nelson, Rebecca C. Weiss, Sumedh N. Barde +3 more 2010-05-04 $20,100,000
7669082 Fault tolerant and hang resistant media processing applications Sumedh N. Barde, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Sohail Baig Mohammed, Patrick N. Nelson, Gurpratap Virdi +1 more 2010-02-23 $27,908,000
7664882 System and method for accessing multimedia content Sohail Baig Mohammed, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Rebecca C. Weiss, Sumedh N. Barde, Miguel M. Valdez 2010-02-16 $17,946,000
7617401 Hardware functionality scan for device authentication David J. Marsh, Kenneth Reneris, David R. Blythe 2009-11-10 $34,464,000
7613767 Resolving a distributed topology to stream data Thomas A. Thornton, Troy Batterberry, Nadim Y. Abdo, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Dale A. Sather +2 more 2009-11-03 $22,743,000
7609653 Resolving partial media topologies Samuel Amin, Brian Crites, Sohail Baig Mohammed, Niranjan S. Nayak, Eric Rudolph +1 more 2009-10-27 $39,185,000
7590656 Methods and systems for providing playlists Daniel Plastina, James M. Alkove, Scott Colville, Gabriel S. DeBacker 2009-09-15 $22,769,000
7584502 Policy engine and methods and systems for protecting data James M. Alkove, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, William Chambers Powell, III, Jeffrey R. McKune 2009-09-01 $29,550,000
7577940 Managing topology changes in media applications Samuel Amin, Brian Crites, Sohail Baig Mohammed, Niranjan S. Nayak, Eric Rudolph +1 more 2009-08-18 $21,161,000
7571016 Crossfade of media playback between different media processes Shafiq Rahman, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Adil Sherwani, Sumedh N. Barde, Sohail Baig Mohammed +2 more 2009-08-04 $28,843,000