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Richard Harper — 19 Patents

Microsoft: 12 patents #3,517 of 40,388Top 9%
GEGec-Marconi: 1 patents #45 of 186Top 25%
Eagle, ID: #21 of 278 inventorsTop 8%
Idaho: #745 of 8,810 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Richard Harper has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in April 2019. Richard Harper ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Richard Harper in Eagle, ID, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2014.peak 41995: 1 patents19952004: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 3 patents2014: 4 patents20142017: 1 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 2 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10275046 Accessing and interacting with information Chunhui Zhang, Min Wang, Tong Yuan, Chunshui Zhao, Xiangwei Zhu 2019-04-30 $87,413,000
10176696 Apparatus and process for measuring gaseous emissions from an engine 2019-01-08
10054204 Variable output planetary gear set with electromagnetic braking 2018-08-21
9967379 Method and system for securing a mobile electronic device 2018-05-08
9537528 Method and system for securing a mobile electronic device 2017-01-03
8762892 Controlling an integrated messaging system using gestures Richard Banks, Philip Gosset, Abigail Sellen 2014-06-24 $40,583,000
8743223 Linking captured images using short range communications Philip Gosset, Richard Banks 2014-06-03 $32,410,000
8712455 Proximity-based mobile message delivery Philip Gosset 2014-04-29 $28,448,000
8656454 Data store including a file location attribute Dinan Gunawardena, Eno Thereska 2014-02-18 $42,189,000
8560520 Information retrieval using time Philip Gosset 2013-10-15 $28,338,000
8458180 Information exploration Philip Charles Gossel, Richard Banks 2013-06-04 $20,420,000
8351331 Resource allocation framework for wireless/wired networks Thomas Karagiannis, Christos Gkantsidis, Peter B. Key, Abigail Sellen, Timothy Regan +4 more 2013-01-08 $13,559,000
8170591 Proximity-based mobile message delivery Philip Gosset 2012-05-01 $24,840,000
8000457 Visual answering machine 2011-08-16 $15,401,000
7721224 Electronic calendar with message receiver Abigail Sellen 2010-05-18 $13,421,000
7376395 Controlling a telecommunications device Julian Gebhardt, Stephen E. Hodges 2008-05-20 $37,918,000
D556982 Shoe sole Michael Harper 2007-12-11
6780099 Roof ventilation system 2004-08-24
5389883 Measurement of gas and water content in oil 1995-02-14