Michael Lorton — 10 Patents at Microsoft

Michael Lorton has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in April 2025. Michael Lorton ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Michael Lorton in San Francisco, CA, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12282813	System and method for dynamic registration and utilization of QR-code identifiers on physical media	Anees Iqbal	2025-04-22
6519587	Database query system and method	Arnold Blinn	2003-02-11	$175,893,000
6484150	Electronic shopping and merchandising system accessing legacy data in a database independent schema manner	Arnold Blinn, Michael Ari Cohen, Gregory Stein	2002-11-19	$181,413,000
6061677	Database query system and method	Arnold Blinn	2000-05-09	$474,322,000
6058373	System and method for processing electronic order forms	Arnold Blinn, Michael Ari Cohen, Gregory Stein	2000-05-02	$586,257,000
5999914	Electronic promotion system for an electronic merchant system	Arnold Blinn, Michael Ari Cohen, Gregory Stein	1999-12-07	$326,396,000
5974418	Database schema independence	Arnold Blinn, Michael Ari Cohen, Gregory Stein	1999-10-26
5897622	Electronic shopping and merchandising system	Arnold Blinn, Michael Ari Cohen, Gregory Stein	1999-04-27	$416,566,000
5893101	Protection of an electronically stored image in a first color space by the alteration of digital component in a second color space	Aristotle Nicolas Balogh, Hatte Blejer, Robert Briggs, Eugene Chen, Sharon Flank +7 more	1999-04-06
5493677	Generation, archiving, and retrieval of digital images with evoked suggestion-set captions and natural language interface	Aristotle Nicolas Balogh, Hatte Blejer, Eugene Chen, Sharon Flank, Carmen Iannacone +5 more	1996-02-20

Michael Lorton — 10 Patents

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