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Lutz Gerhard — 25 Patents

Microsoft: 21 patents #1,596 of 40,388Top 4%
Amazon: 4 patents #4,091 of 19,158Top 25%
Seattle, WA: #951 of 21,776 inventorsTop 5%
Washington: #3,426 of 76,902 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Lutz Gerhard has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in April 2022. Lutz Gerhard ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Lutz Gerhard in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2013.peak 52008: 2 patents20082009: 1 patents2010: 4 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 5 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 2 patents20192021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11301635 Style extensibility applied to a group of shapes by editing text files Janet L. Schorr, Thomas C. Underhill 2022-04-12 $182,277,000
10956660 Automatically converting text to business graphics Lawrence Fubini Waldman, Dawn Wright, Gary A. Pritting, Matthew J. Kotler, Cynthia C. Shelly 2021-03-23 $162,800,000
10514830 Bookmark overlays for displayed content Michael Patrick Bacus, Seth Daniel Micarelli, Alla Taborisskaya, Joseph King, Amanda Font +2 more 2019-12-24 $105,018,000
10248647 Style extensibility applied to a group of shapes by editing text files Janet L. Schorr, Thomas C. Underhill 2019-04-02 $55,404,000
9990060 Filtering stylus strokes Heidi Christine Schubert 2018-06-05 $122,441,000
9898099 Filtering stylus strokes Heidi Christine Schubert 2018-02-20 $81,026,000
9778824 Bookmark overlays for displayed content Michael Patrick Bacus, Seth Daniel Micarelli, Alla Taborisskaya, Joseph King, Amanda Font +2 more 2017-10-03 $51,291,000
9529786 Automatically converting text to business graphics Lawrence Fubini Waldman, Dawn Wright, Gary A. Pritting, Matthew J. Kotler, Cynthia C. Shelly 2016-12-27 $44,288,000
9170987 Style extensibility applied to a group of shapes by editing text files Janet L. Schorr, Thomas C. Underhill 2015-10-27 $47,916,000
8619083 Multi-layer image composition with intermediate blending resolutions Radoslav Nickolov, Ming Liu, Raman Narayanan, Drew Steedly 2013-12-31 $17,332,000
8533622 Integrating digital book and zoom interface displays Julio Estrada 2013-09-10 $23,590,000
8446411 Adaptive image rendering and use of imposter Benjamin Vanik 2013-05-21 $24,092,000
8438486 Automatically converting text to business graphics Lawrence Fubini Waldman, Dawn Wright, Gary A. Pritting, Matthew J. Kotler, Cynthia C. Shelly 2013-05-07 $27,755,000
8385669 Scalable mutable tiled multi-resolution texture atlases Adam Szoforan, Radoslav Nickolov 2013-02-26 $11,012,000
8213747 Variable resolution images Paul David Jones, David M. Gedye, Abraham Dunn, Radoslav Nickolov 2012-07-03 $17,614,000
8064733 Variable resolution images Paul David Jones, David M. Gedye, Abraham Dunn, Radoslav Nickolov 2011-11-22 $15,326,000
7983512 Embedding large images within one another Radoslav Nickolov, David M. Gedye, Blaise H. Aguera, Abraham Dunn 2011-07-19 $14,062,000
7933473 Multiple resolution image storage Paul David Jones, Olivier Z. Garamfalvi, Julian Walker 2011-04-26 $19,159,000
7752543 Applying effects to a merged text path Michael John Arvold, Michael Kallay 2010-07-06 $19,949,000
7747944 Semantically applying style transformation to objects in a graphic Georg F. Petschnigg, John Schilling, Thomas C. Underhill 2010-06-29 $14,156,000
7737996 Techniques for automated animation Matthew J. Kotler, Stephen T. Wells, Thomas C. Underhill, Alexandre Gueniot 2010-06-15 $15,264,000
7719531 Editing text within a three-dimensional graphic Christopher D. Dickens, Craig L. Daw, Damien Berger, Jason Long 2010-05-18 $13,421,000
7499904 System and method for client mastered replication of local files 2009-03-03 $17,333,000
7469050 Organization-based content rights management and systems, structures, and methods therefor Pavel Kouznetsov, Jason Cahill, Lauren Antonoff, Kevin Brown, Moshe R. Lutz +1 more 2008-12-23 $55,448,000
7379074 Semantically applying formatting to a presentation model Tom Underhill, Gary A. Pritting, John Schilling, Eric S. Rockey, Keri D. Vandeberghe 2008-05-27 $21,072,000