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Nigel Keam — 45 Patents

Microsoft: 45 patents #416 of 40,388Top 2%
Redmond, WA: #143 of 8,547 inventorsTop 2%
Washington: #1,365 of 76,902 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #64,393 of 4,157,543Top 2%
45 Patents All Time
Nigel Keam has been granted 45 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in March 2022. Nigel Keam ranks #64,393 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Nigel Keam in Redmond, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 45 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
RE48963 Connection device for computing devices Steven Bathiche, Flavio Protasio Ribeiro, Bernard K. Rihn, Panos Costa Panay, David W. Voth 2022-03-08
11061939 Dynamic awareness involving location Kevin Shields, William T. Flora, Bret P. O'Rourke, John Mark Miller, Eric P. Wilfrid +4 more 2021-07-13 $194,223,000
10592228 Stylus firmware updates Ian McLean 2020-03-17 $74,735,000
10444866 Force sensor for a stylus John Lutian 2019-10-15 $42,745,000
10331708 Dynamic awareness involving location Kevin Shields, William T. Flora, Bret P. O'Rourke, John Mark Miller, Eric P. Wilfrid +4 more 2019-06-25 $55,928,000
9989690 Thermal expansion compensated backlight illumination Tristan Thomas Trutna, Edward F. Burress 2018-06-05 $72,048,000
9759851 Thermal expansion compensated backlight illumination Tristan Thomas Trutna, Edward F. Burress 2017-09-12 $27,507,000
9544504 Rapid synchronized lighting and shuttering Bernard K. Rihn, Paul Henry Dietz, Steven Bathiche 2017-01-10 $27,928,000
9426905 Connection device for computing devices Steven Bathiche, Flavio Protasio Ribeiro, Bernard K. Rihn, Panos Costa Panay, David W. Voth 2016-08-23 $31,125,000
9383769 Display device Rajesh Manohar Dighde, Bernie Schultz 2016-07-05 $33,937,000
9330302 Polarized gaze tracking Vaibhav Thukral, Sudipta Narayan Sinha, Vivek Pradeep, Timothy Andrew Large, David Nister 2016-05-03 $30,562,000
9041877 Ruggedized display device Rajesh Manohar Dighde, Bernie Schultz 2015-05-26 $39,842,000
8988763 Predictive electrophoretic display Bernard K. Rihn 2015-03-24 $16,695,000
8982061 Angular contact geometry Weidong Zhao, David A. Stevens, Aleksandar Uzelac, Takahiro Shigemitsu, Andrew D. Wilson 2015-03-17 $21,315,000
8786767 Rapid synchronized lighting and shuttering Bernard K. Rihn, Paul Henry Dietz, Steven Bathiche 2014-07-22 $26,287,000
8681126 Ambient correction in rolling image capture system 2014-03-25 $29,958,000
8289300 Ambient correction in rolling image capture system 2012-10-16 $18,516,000
8212857 Alternating light sources to reduce specular reflection 2012-07-03 $17,614,000
8184101 Detecting touch on a surface via a scanning laser John R. Lewis, Andrew D. Wilson 2012-05-22 $19,852,000
8125458 Detecting finger orientation on a touch-sensitive device 2012-02-28 $31,159,000
8117094 Distribution channels and monetizing Boyd C. Multerer, William T. Flora, Bret P. O'Rourke, John Mark Miller, Eric P. Wilfrid +6 more 2012-02-14 $18,405,000
8100756 Dynamic problem solving for games Bret P. O'Rourke, Eric P. Wilfrid, Steven Bathiche, James M. Alkove, Zachary Lewis Russell +3 more 2012-01-24 $16,228,000
8063888 Identification of devices on touch-sensitive surface Craig McFarlane, Dana Lu Silverstein, Victor P. Drake, Kevin Kennedy, Cyra Richardson +1 more 2011-11-22 $15,326,000
8018442 Calibration of an optical touch-sensitive display device Prafulla Masalkar 2011-09-13 $16,414,000
8004502 Correcting for ambient light in an optical touch-sensitive device 2011-08-23 $12,314,000