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Michael Edward Samples — 23 Patents

Microsoft: 16 patents #2,398 of 40,388Top 6%
Toyota: 7 patents #4,210 of 26,838Top 20%
Ann Arbor, MI: #350 of 6,071 inventorsTop 6%
Michigan: #3,302 of 86,293 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Michael Edward Samples has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in October 2025. Michael Edward Samples ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Michael Edward Samples in Ann Arbor, MI, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12457309 Amplitude and biphase control of MEMS scanning device Mikhail Smirnov, Jozef Barnabas Houben, Damon M. Domjan, Joshua O. Miller 2025-10-28
11778160 Calibrating sensor alignment with applied bending moment Yinan Wu, Navid Poulad, Dapeng Liu, Trevor Boswell, Rayna DEMASTER-SMITH +2 more 2023-10-03 $205,636,000
11743434 Amplitude and biphase control of MEMS scanning device Mikhail Smirnov, Jozef Barnabas Houben, Damon M. Domjan, Joshua O. Miller 2023-08-29 $347,832,000
11716456 Autocalibrated near-eye display Dmitry Reshidko, Rayna DEMASTER-SMITH 2023-08-01 $339,452,000
11450014 Systems and methods for continuous image alignment of separate cameras Michael Bleyer, Christopher Douglas Edmonds, Sudipta Narayan Sinha, Matthew Karr, Raymond Kirk Price 2022-09-20 $204,012,000
11368658 Amplitude and biphase control of MEMS scanning device Mikhail Smirnov, Jozef Barnabas Houben, Damon M. Domjan, Joshua O. Miller 2022-06-21 $256,604,000
11314321 Object and environment tracking via shared sensor Drew Steedly, Alexandru Balan, William Douglas Guyman, Vuk Jovanovic, Taras Khapko +6 more 2022-04-26 $446,931,000
10719125 Object and environment tracking via shared sensor Drew Steedly, Alexandru Balan, William Douglas Guyman, Vuk Jovanovic, Taras Khapko +6 more 2020-07-21 $123,214,000
10705598 Tracking wearable device and handheld object poses Drew Steedly, Alexandru Balan, Salim Sirtkaya, William Douglas Guyman, Vuk Jovanovic +1 more 2020-07-07 $159,510,000
10628711 Determining pose of handheld object in environment Alexandru Balan, Ruven Jaime Rivera, III, Ivan Razumenic 2020-04-21 $75,244,000
10620717 Position-determining input device Daniel McCulloch, Nicholas Gervase Fajt, Adam G. Poulos, Christopher Douglas Edmonds, Lev Cherkashin +13 more 2020-04-14 $125,652,000
10503247 Calibration of stereo cameras and handheld object Alexandru Balan, Salim Sirtkaya, Vuk Jovanovic, Filip Panjevic, Taras Khapko +1 more 2019-12-10 $55,563,000
10324291 Display active alignment system for waveguide displays Steven John Robbins, Drew Steedly, Zhiqiang Liu, Andrew K. Juenger 2019-06-18 $97,412,000
10248191 Virtual rigid framework for sensor subsystem Nicholas McGee, Quentin S. Miller, Lev Cherkashin, Drew Steedly 2019-04-02 $55,404,000
10216263 Display active alignment systems utilizing test patterns for calibrating signals in waveguide displays Steven John Robbins, Drew Steedly, Zhiqiang Liu, Andrew K. Juenger 2019-02-26 $52,330,000
10203781 Integrated free space and surface input device Anatolie Gavriliuc, Shawn Crispin Wright, Jeffrey Kohler, Quentin S. Miller, Scott Fullam +2 more 2019-02-12 $61,015,000
9255989 Tracking on-road vehicles with sensors of different modalities Avdhut JOSHI, Michael James 2016-02-09 $1,112,000
8799201 Method and system for tracking objects Michael James 2014-08-05 $817,000
8605998 Real-time 3D point cloud obstacle discriminator apparatus and associated methodology for training a classifier via bootstrapping Michael James 2013-12-10 $1,405,000
8571722 Method for safely parking vehicle near obstacles Michael James 2013-10-29 $2,465,000
8384534 Combining driver and environment sensing for vehicular safety systems Michael James, Steven F. Kalik 2013-02-26 $955,000
8126605 Computing platform for multiple intelligent transportation systems in an automotive vehicle Lorenzo Caminiti, Michael James, Kenneth P. Laberteaux, Derek S. Caveney, Jeff Rogers 2012-02-28 $930,000
7813877 Relevancy check for vehicle safety messages using a path history Lorenzo Caminiti, Derek S. Caveney, Kenneth P. Laberteaux 2010-10-12 $1,610,000