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Mark T. Burton — 8 Patents

Microsoft: 8 patents #5,580 of 40,388Top 15%
Redmond, WA: #1,675 of 8,547 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #13,119 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Mark T. Burton has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in June 2007. Mark T. Burton ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Mark T. Burton in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2007Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1998.peak 11998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents20042007: 1 patents2007

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7233976 Cache slot lock for multi-thread file request R Donald Thompson 2007-06-19 $46,980,000
6785714 System and method for employing slot level locking of a cache R. Donald Thompson, III 2004-08-31 $111,780,000
6541689 Inter-track communication of musical performance data Todor C. Fay 2003-04-01 $231,477,000
6433266 Playing multiple concurrent instances of musical segments Todor C. Fay 2002-08-13 $181,552,000
6169242 Track-based music performance architecture Todor C. Fay 2001-01-02 $592,458,000
6150599 Dynamically halting music event streams and flushing associated command queues Todor C. Fay 2000-11-21 $568,825,000
5902947 System and method for arranging and invoking music event processors Todor C. Fay 1999-05-11 $214,776,000
5827989 System and method for representing a musical event and for converting the musical event into a series of discrete events Todor C. Fay 1998-10-27 $326,537,000