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Mark T. Hanson — 12 Patents

Microsoft: 12 patents #3,517 of 40,388Top 9%
Woodinville, WA: #253 of 1,504 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #8,631 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Mark T. Hanson has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in July 2018. Mark T. Hanson ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Mark T. Hanson in Woodinville, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10019984 Speech recognition error diagnosis Shiun-Zu Kuo, Thomas Reutter, Yifan Gong, Ye Tian, Shuangyu Chang +3 more 2018-07-10 $63,082,000
8296474 Method and apparatus for detecting the type of interface to which a peripheral device is connected Nathan C. Sherman, Lord Nigel Featherston, Mark W. Casebolt, Victor P. Drake, Keith Mullins +2 more 2012-10-23 $17,154,000
8112556 Method and apparatus for detecting the type of interface to which a peripheral device is connected Lord Nigel Featherston, Nathan C. Sherman, Victor P. Drake, Keith Mullins, David L. Holo 2012-02-07 $21,648,000
7975078 Method and apparatus for detecting the type of interface to which a peripheral device is connected Nathan C. Sherman, Lord Nigel Featherston, Mark W. Casebolt, Victor P. Drake, Keith Mullins +2 more 2011-07-05 $15,908,000
7779171 Method and apparatus for detecting the type of interface to which a peripheral device is connected Nathan C. Sherman, Lord Nigel Featherston, Mark W. Casebolt, Victor P. Drake, Keith Mullins +2 more 2010-08-17 $13,094,000
7277966 Method and apparatus for detecting the type of interface to which a peripheral device is connected Nathan C. Sherman, Lord Nigel Featherston, Mark W. Casebolt, Victor P. Drake, Keith Mullins +2 more 2007-10-02 $31,692,000
7096435 Method and apparatus for detecting the type of interface to which a peripheral device is connected Nathan C. Sherman, Lord Nigel Featherston, Mark W. Casebolt, Victor P. Drake, Keith Mullins +2 more 2006-08-22 $46,616,000
6795949 Method and apparatus for detecting the type of interface to which a peripheral device is connected Lord Nigel Featherston, Nathan C. Sherman, Victor P. Drake, Keith Mullins, David L. Holo 2004-09-21 $94,409,000
6460094 Peripheral device configured to detect the type of interface to which it is connected and configuring itself accordingly Lord Nigel Featherston, Nathan C. Sherman, Victor P. Drake, Keith Mullins, David L. Holo 2002-10-01 $150,453,000
6442734 Method and apparatus for detecting the type of interface to which a peripheral device is connected Nathan C. Sherman 2002-08-27 $240,716,000
5670955 Method and apparatus for generating directional and force vector in an input device Edwin Thorne, III, John P. Pennock, Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes 1997-09-23 $1,112,223,000
5557440 Noise-insensitive optoencoding techniques with compensation for device variations Glade B. Bacon 1996-09-17 $192,952,000