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Miller Thomas Abel — 34 Patents

Microsoft: 31 patents #808 of 40,388Top 3%
Mercer Island, WA: #53 of 829 inventorsTop 7%
Washington: #2,149 of 76,902 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #100,737 of 4,157,543Top 3%
34 Patents All Time
Miller Thomas Abel has been granted 34 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in October 2021. Miller Thomas Abel ranks #100,737 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.4%). Patent records list Miller Thomas Abel in Mercer Island, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2013.peak 52000: 2 patents20002009: 2 patents2010: 2 patents20102011: 4 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 5 patents2014: 5 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 4 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 1 patents20182021: 2 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 34 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11157895 Payment devices having multiple modes of conducting financial transactions Kenneth G. Mages 2021-10-26
10891599 Use of state objects in near field communication (NFC) transactions 2021-01-12 $215,405,000
9953084 Application store tastemaker recommendations Joseph Futty, Matthew G. Dyor, Danny Lange 2018-04-24 $35,451,000
9799944 PIFA array Darko Kirovski, Gerald DeJean, Yingyi Zou, Craig S. Brenner 2017-10-24 $48,823,000
9703539 Viral application distribution Joseph Futty, James Kai Yu Lau, Shai Guday, Richard Yao 2017-07-11 $36,380,000
9536202 Identifying geospatial patterns from device data Shai Herzog, Jyh-Han Lin, Moe Khosravy, Katrika Morris, Karon A. Weber +1 more 2017-01-03 $30,922,000
9525548 Provisioning techniques Alan L. Marshall, Kamran Rajabi Zargahi, Murali R. Krishnan, Anoop Anantha 2016-12-20 $47,770,000
9509686 Secure element authentication Anoop Anantha, Murali R. Krishnan, Alan L. Marshall, Kamran Rajabi Zargahi 2016-11-29 $32,020,000
9253280 Mobile device manners propagation and compliance Shai Guday, Michael J. Sinclair 2016-02-02 $33,611,000
9237205 Mobile device manners propagation and compliance Shai Guday, Michael J. Sinclair 2016-01-12 $67,891,000
9092783 Viral distribution and tracking of electronic coupons Shai Guday 2015-07-28 $31,589,000
9014685 Mobile device which automatically determines operating mode Steven Bathiche, William J. Westerinen, Julio Estrada, Charles J. Migos 2015-04-21 $29,497,000
8971810 Dynamic range wireless communications access point Jeffrey Herron, Gerald DeJean, Darko Kirovski, Craig S. Brenner, William Thomas Blank 2015-03-03 $20,156,000
8887987 Federated voting with criteria-based discrimination Dawson Yee, Scott C. Forbes, Shai Guday 2014-11-18 $23,153,000
8787832 Dynamic range wireless communications access point Jeffrey Herron, Gerald DeJean, Darko Kirovski, Craig S. Brenner, William Thomas Blank 2014-07-22 $26,287,000
8780714 Method for optimizing near field links 2014-07-15 $37,194,000
8751524 Application store concierge Joseph Futty, Eric P. Gilmore, Kamran Rajabi Zargahi, John Clavin, Viswanath Vadlamani 2014-06-10 $30,051,000
8718554 Means for provisioning and managing mobile device configuration over a near-field communication link 2014-05-06 $28,438,000
8620215 Personalization of a mobile communcation device Shai Guday 2013-12-31 $17,332,000
8504512 Identifying geospatial patterns from device data Shai Herzog, Jyh-Han Lin, Moe Khosravy, Katrika Woodcock, Karon A. Weber +1 more 2013-08-06 $23,592,000
8494502 Provisioning of wireless connectivity for devices using NFC Shai Guday, Benjamin Nick 2013-07-23 $26,254,000
8433620 Application store tastemaker recommendations Joseph Futty, Matthew G. Dyor, Danny Lange 2013-04-30 $25,167,000
8400913 Method for optimizing near field links 2013-03-19 $16,508,000
8102797 Web format-based wireless communications 2012-01-24 $16,228,000
8014722 Provisioning of wireless connectivity for devices using NFC Shai Guday, Benjamin Nick 2011-09-06 $21,845,000