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Michael J. Hillberg — 29 Patents

Microsoft: 29 patents #907 of 40,388Top 3%
Mercer Island, WA: #61 of 829 inventorsTop 8%
Washington: #2,710 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
Michael J. Hillberg has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in March 2019. Michael J. Hillberg ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list Michael J. Hillberg in Mercer Island, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2009.peak 72002: 2 patents20022004: 1 patents2007: 3 patents20072008: 3 patents2009: 7 patents20092010: 2 patents2011: 1 patents20112013: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 2 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10244022 Media streams from containers processed by hosted code Sam J. George, Gilles Khouzam, Michael R. Harsh, Gurpratap Virdi, John Gossman +8 more 2019-03-26 $49,304,000
10115217 Layering animation properties in higher level animations Ruurd Johan Boeke, Hamid Mahmood, Terry A. Adams, Brendan Joseph Clark 2018-10-30 $61,995,000
9785549 Managing object lifetime for native/managed peers Ashraf A. Michail, Sujal S. Parikh 2017-10-10 $29,796,000
9613073 Managing object lifetime in a cyclic graph Raja Krishnaswamy 2017-04-04 $38,196,000
9268848 Semantic navigation through object collections Ted G. Glaza, Hamid Mahmood, Terry A. Adams, Vincent Paul Sibal, Vijay Devatha +1 more 2016-02-23 $38,059,000
9250713 Control exposure Brian Ewanchuk, Lawrence W. Olson, Akhilesh Kaza, Jeremy B. Gup, Austin M. Lamb 2016-02-02 $33,611,000
9053017 Managing object lifetime in a cyclic graph Raja Krishnaswamy 2015-06-09 $39,913,000
8789168 Media streams from containers processed by hosted code Sam J. George, Gilles Khouzam, Michael R. Harsh, Gurpratap Virdi, John Gossman +9 more 2014-07-22 $26,287,000
8661332 Method and apparatus for document processing Jerry Dunietz, Charles P. Jazdzewski, David Ornstein, Rob Relyea, Oliver H. Foehr +3 more 2014-02-25 $35,687,000
8613104 Protected and virtual interfaces for COM aggregation Sujal S. Parikh 2013-12-17 $25,958,000
7882120 Data description language for record based systems Donald F. Box, Brian F. Chapman, Martin J. Gudgin, Charles P. Jazdzewski, Natasha Jethanandani +4 more 2011-02-01 $15,193,000
7823157 Dynamic queue for use in threaded computing environment Dwayne Need, Nicholas M. Kramer 2010-10-26 $19,005,000
7743387 Inheritance context for graphics primitives Adam Smith, Jeffrey L. Bogdan, Namita Gupta 2010-06-22 $17,867,000
7568035 Command binding determination and implementation Namita Gupta, Jeffrey L. Bogdan 2009-07-28 $31,590,000
7562095 Application programming interfaces for an on-demand property system Namita Gupta, Mark J. Finocchio, Jeffrey L. Bogdan 2009-07-14 $33,585,000
7543286 Method and system for mapping tags to classes using namespaces Robert A. Relyea, Jeffrey L. Bogdan, Peter Ostertag 2009-06-02 $32,982,000
7523221 Mechanism for applying transforms to multi-part files Roger Shu Kwan Cheng, David Ornstein, Jason Cahill 2009-04-21 $25,262,000
7496828 Method and system for mapping tags to classes using namespaces Robert A. Relyea, Jeffrey L. Bogdan, Peter Ostertag 2009-02-24 $16,710,000
7487448 Document mark up methods and systems Daniel Emerson, David Ornstein, Greg Schechter, Jerry Dunietz, Joe King +6 more 2009-02-03 $26,486,000
7477254 Smooth transitions between animations Elizabeth K. Nelson, Kurt B. Jacob, Matt Calkins 2009-01-13 $27,818,000
7464107 Property management mechanisms for properties in an on-demand property system Namita Gupta, Mark J. Finocchio, Jeffrey L. Bogdan 2008-12-09 $23,423,000
7447993 System and method for displaying a user interface object using an associated style Christopher L. Anderson, Jeffrey L. Bogdan, Namita Gupta, Alex Mogilevsky 2008-11-04 $40,487,000
7336280 Coordinating animations and media in computer display output Elizabeth K. Nelson, Greg Schechter, Leonardo E. Blanco, Matthew W. Calkins, Namita Gupta +4 more 2008-02-26 $32,154,000
7263654 System and method for generating optimized binary representation of an object tree Roger Grambihler, Peter Ostertag 2007-08-28 $25,091,000
7237194 System and method for generating optimized binary representation of an object tree Roger Grambihler, Peter Ostertag 2007-06-26 $32,442,000