Mark Blelock Atherton — 11 Patents at Microsoft

Mark Blelock Atherton has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in December 2025. Mark Blelock Atherton ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Mark Blelock Atherton in Lymington, WA, GB.

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Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12500770	User authentication techniques across applications on a user device	Itay Duvdevani, Roy Udassin, Sona Rathod, Oliver Sam Collins, Junyue Sun +13 more	2025-12-16
11573989	Corpus specific generative query completion assistant	Peter Bailey, David Anthony Hawking, Nicholas Eric Craswell	2023-02-07	$275,548,000
9747377	Semantic zoom for related content	Daniel Marantz, Aaron Chun Win Yuen, Priya Vaidyanathan, Parthasarathy Govindarajen	2017-08-29	$34,413,000
9633018	Generation of related content for social media posts	Paul Baecke	2017-04-25	$35,834,000
9396267	Semantic zoom for related content	Daniel Marantz, Aaron Chun Win Yuen, Priya Vaidyanathan, Parthasarathy Govindarajen	2016-07-19	$45,858,000
9002174	Semantic zoom for related content	Daniel Marantz, Aaron Chun Win Yuen, Priya Vaidyanathan, Parthasarathy Govindarajen	2015-04-07	$31,727,000
8447661	Query analysis for geographic-based listing service	Garry R. Wiseman	2013-05-21	$24,092,000
8090620	Query analysis for geographic-based listing service	Garry R. Wiseman	2012-01-03	$18,593,000
7840558	Geo-tagged based listing service and mapping engine	Garry R. Wiseman	2010-11-23	$20,310,000
6154219	System and method for optimally placing labels on a map	John-Michael Wiley	2000-11-28	$335,510,000
6081802	System and method for accessing compactly stored map element information from memory	Paul Sean Harrington	2000-06-27	$474,025,000

Mark Blelock Atherton — 11 Patents

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