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Richard Fang — 20 Patents

Microsoft: 20 patents #1,724 of 40,388Top 5%
Bellevue, WA: #565 of 6,950 inventorsTop 9%
Washington: #4,680 of 76,902 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Richard Fang has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in September 2025. Richard Fang ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Richard Fang in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2016 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2020.peak 52016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents20182019: 3 patents20192020: 5 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 4 patents20222023: 2 patents20232024: 1 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12430020 Application window preview panels Matthias Baer, Bryan K. Mamaril, Isaiah Ng, Garner B. Thomas, Cassandra M. April +1 more 2025-09-30
12061531 Insight-led activity reporting and digital health management Chang-Ling Wu, Justin James WAGLE 2024-08-13 $383,964,000
11762544 Auto-grouping of application windows Miron Vranjes, Matthew I. Worley, Nils A. Sundelin, Robert J. Jarrett, Jesse Clay Satterfield +3 more 2023-09-19 $329,614,000
11755200 Adjusting operating system posture for a touch-enabled computing device based on user input modality signals Lee Dicks Clark, Alisha Dilip Gala, MerryJane M. Fosdick, Aaron R. Teetor, Michael Neil LOHOLT +5 more 2023-09-12 $346,738,000
11372541 Adjusting operating system posture for a touch-enabled computing device based on user input modality signals Lee Dicks Clark, Alisha Dilip Gala, MerryJane M. Fosdick, Aaron R. Teetor, Michael Neil LOHOLT +5 more 2022-06-28 $238,915,000
11327777 Enabling focus time based on school assignment completion information Hemanshu K. Chawda, Chang-Ling Wu, Mouna Sidi Hida, Jerome Jean-Louis Vasseur, Kaylie J. Wilson +2 more 2022-05-10 $157,076,000
11301124 User interface modification using preview panel Matthias Baer, Bryan K. Mamaril, Isaiah Ng, Garner B. Thomas, Cassandra M. April +1 more 2022-04-12 $182,277,000
11295706 Customizable compact overlay window Nils A. Sundelin, Bret P. Anderson, Samuel George Gates, Miron Vranjes, Christopher Doan +1 more 2022-04-05 $223,258,000
11003347 Auto-grouping of application windows Miron Vranjes, Matthew I. Worley, Nils A. Sundelin, Robert J. Jarrett, Jesse Clay Satterfield +3 more 2021-05-11 $170,098,000
10678412 Dynamic joint dividers for application windows Miron Vranjes, Oliver R. Jones, Nils A. Sundelin, Chaitanya Dev Sareen, Jeremy Monroe Bowen +1 more 2020-06-09 $114,158,000
10627993 Interacting with a clipboard store Matthew I. Worley, Chaitanya Dev Sareen, Christopher Doan, Jason Yore, Apurva Jain 2020-04-21 $75,244,000
10620772 Universal back navigation for multiple windows Lavanya Vasudevan, Miron Vranjes, Jeremy Monroe Bowen, Christopher Doan, Tsz Yan Wong +5 more 2020-04-14 $125,652,000
10564814 Contextual new tab experience in a heterogeneous tab environment Ross N. Luengen, Scott James Krieder, Michael J. Patten, Robyn E. Dunn, Brian E. Uphoff +3 more 2020-02-18 $61,429,000
10528242 Auto-grouping of application windows Miron Vranjes, Matthew I. Worley, Nils A. Sundelin, Robert J. Jarrett, Jesse Clay Satterfield +3 more 2020-01-07 $59,890,000
10409634 Surfacing task-related applications in a heterogeneous tab environment Samuel George Gates, Ross N. Luengen, Lee Dicks Clark 2019-09-10 $58,792,000
10338765 Combined switching and window placement Christopher Doan, Matthew I. Worley, Miron Vranjes, Steven James Frederickson, Nils A. Sundelin +3 more 2019-07-02 $68,442,000
10216370 Tabs in system task switchers Adam E. Barrus, Andrew M. Pickard, Samuel George Gates 2019-02-26 $52,330,000
10152851 Notification artifact display Srinivas Raghu Gatta 2018-12-11 $89,952,000
9575643 Auto-grouping of application windows Miron Vranjes, Matthew I. Worley, Nils A. Sundelin, Robert J. Jarrett, Jesse Clay Satterfield +3 more 2017-02-21 $41,519,000
9250761 Auto-grouping of application windows Miron Vranjes, Matthew I. Worley, Nils A. Sundelin, Robert J. Jarrett, Jesse Clay Satterfield +3 more 2016-02-02 $33,611,000