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Marlin Eller — 9 Patents

Microsoft: 6 patents #7,433 of 40,388Top 20%
Seattle, WA: #3,345 of 21,776 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #11,701 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Marlin Eller has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in March 2001. Marlin Eller ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Marlin Eller in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2001Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1998.peak 31994: 1 patents19941996: 1 patents19961997: 2 patents19971998: 3 patents19981999: 1 patents19992001: 1 patents2001

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6201174 Method and system for improved tablature notation in digital music scores 2001-03-13 $364,000
5889860 Encryption system with transaction coded decryption key Brent Robert Mills 1999-03-30
5773741 Method and apparatus for nonsequential storage of and access to digital musical score and performance information Brent Robert Mills 1998-06-30
5737733 Method and system for searching compressed data 1998-04-07 $273,691,000
5710832 Method and system for displaying handwritten data and recognized symbols Eric R. Berman, Luis Fernando Talavera Abdala, Shishir Pardikar 1998-01-20 $160,693,000
5636297 Method and system for recognizing a graphic object's shape, line style, and fill pattern in a pen environment Christopher B. Leyerle, Shishir Pardikar 1997-06-03 $445,146,000
5610996 Method and apparatus for arc segmentation in handwriting recognition 1997-03-11 $241,237,000
5550930 Method and system for training a handwriting recognizer at the time of misrecognition Eric R. Berman, Luis Fernando Talavera Abdala 1996-08-27 $176,182,000
5287417 Method and system for recognizing a graphic object's shape, line style, and fill pattern in a pen environment Christopher B. Leyerle, Shishir Pardikar 1994-02-15 $69,965,000