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Michael Duggan — 41 Patents

Microsoft: 33 patents #717 of 40,388Top 2%
SYSyntaxin: 4 patents #12 of 26Top 50%
HAHealth Protection Agency: 2 patents #29 of 55Top 55%
IPIpsen: 2 patents #7 of 33Top 25%
MAMicrobiological Research Authority: 2 patents #8 of 20Top 40%
Overall (All Time): #75,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
41 Patents All Time
Michael Duggan has been granted 41 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in June 2013. Michael Duggan ranks #75,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.8%). Patent records list Michael Duggan in London, WA, GB.

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Showing 1–25 of 41 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8471856 Rendering stroke pairs for graphical objects Beat Stamm, Gregory Hitchcock 2013-06-25 $15,479,000
8253742 Rendering stroke pairs for graphical objects Beat Stamm, Gregory Hitchcock 2012-08-28 $15,180,000
8158132 Clostridial toxin derivatives able to modify peripheral sensory afferent functions Keith Foster, Clifford Shone 2012-04-17
7892560 Clostridial toxin derivatives able to modify peripheral sensory afferent functions Keith Foster, Clifford Shone 2011-02-22
7887810 Clostridial toxin derivatives able to modify peripheral sensory afferent functions Keith Foster, Clifford Shone 2011-02-15
7697003 Simplifying complex characters to maintain legibility William Hill, Gregory Hitchcock, Beat Stamm, Geraldine Wade 2010-04-13 $18,577,000
7583267 Stroke contrast in font hinting Beat Stamm, Gregory Hitchcock 2009-09-01 $29,550,000
7505040 Composite characters font hinting Beat Stamm, Gregory Hitchcock 2009-03-17 $13,616,000
7505041 Iteratively solving constraints in a font-hinting language Beat Stamm, Gregory Hitchcock 2009-03-17 $13,616,000
7452543 Conjugates of galactose-binding lectins and clostridial neurotoxins as analgesics John Chaddock, Philip Marks 2008-11-18
7292249 Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has excessive control points Beat Stamm, Gregory Hitchcock 2007-11-06 $20,387,000
7292247 Dynamically determining directions of freedom for control points used to represent graphical objects Beat Stamm, Gregory Hitchcock 2007-11-06 $20,387,000
7289123 Simplifying complex characters to maintain legibility William Hill, Gregory Hitchcock, Beat Stamm, Geraldine Wade 2007-10-30 $46,422,000
7286121 Sub-component based rendering of objects having spatial frequency dominance parallel to the striping direction of the display Beat Stamm, Geraldine Wade, Greg C. Hitchcock 2007-10-23 $25,268,000
7265757 Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline lacks control points Beat Stamm, Gregory Hitchcock 2007-09-04 $26,539,000
7256786 Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has exact or inexact control points Beat Stamm, Gregory Hitchcock 2007-08-14 $20,227,000
7236174 Adaptively filtering outlines of typographic characters to simplify representative control data Beat Stamm, Gregory Hitchcock 2007-06-26 $32,442,000
7224372 Type size dependent anti-aliasing in sub-pixel precision rendering systems David C. Brown, John C. Platt, Gregory Hitchcock, Beat Stamm 2007-05-29 $37,759,000
7187382 Iteratively solving constraints in a font-hinting language Beat Stamm, Gregory Hitchcock 2007-03-06 $40,082,000
7176941 Dropout control in subpixel rendering Beat Stamm, Gregory Hitchcock, Paul Linnerud 2007-02-13 $37,863,000
7136067 Using externally parameterizeable constraints in a font-hinting language to synthesize font variants Beat Stamm, Gregory Hitchcock 2006-11-14 $37,797,000
7057626 Dropout control in subpixel rendering Beat Stamm, Gregory Hitchcock, Paul Linnerud 2006-06-06 $29,120,000
7052702 Conjugates of galactose-binding lectins and clostridial neurotoxins as analgesics John Chaddock 2006-05-30
6986103 Document formatting based on optimized formatting values John L. Beezer, Jerry Dunietz, William Hill, David M. Silver, Geraldine Wade 2006-01-10 $36,413,000
6985160 Type size dependent anti-aliasing in sub-pixel precision rendering systems David C. Brown, John C. Platt, Gregory Hitchcock, Beat Stamm 2006-01-10 $36,413,000