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Richard K. James — 12 Patents

Microsoft: 7 patents #6,431 of 40,388Top 20%
WNWeyerhaeuser Nr: 2 patents #184 of 578Top 35%
Redmond, WA: #1,103 of 8,547 inventorsTop 15%
Washington: #8,631 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Richard K. James has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in February 2020. Richard K. James ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Richard K. James in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1992.peak 21985: 1 patents19851989: 1 patents19891992: 2 patents19921993: 1 patents19932012: 1 patents20122013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents20142016: 1 patents20162019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10564989 Thread independent parametric positioning for rendering elements Kevin M. Babbitt, Rossen Atanassov, Ian J. Prest, Bogdan Brinza, Samuel R. Fortiner 2020-02-18 $61,429,000
10424041 Thread independent scalable vector graphics operations Ian J. Prest, Rossen Atanassov, Kevin M. Babbitt, Bogdan Brinza, Samuel R. Fortiner 2019-09-24 $78,899,000
9430808 Synchronization points for state information Christian Fortini, Brian E. Manthos, Grant A. Watters, Li-Hsin Huang, Samuel R. Fortiner +12 more 2016-08-30 $26,338,000
8913080 Partitioning high resolution images into sub-images for display Benjamin C. Constable, Rafael V. Cintron 2014-12-16 $40,875,000
8411036 Hardware accelerated caret rendering Rafael V. Cintron, Benjamin C. Constable, Cenk Ergan 2013-04-02 $14,898,000
8347356 Adaptive HTTP authentication scheme selection Jonathan A. Silvera 2013-01-01
8223123 Hardware accelerated caret rendering Rafael V. Cintron, Benjamin C. Constable, Cenk Ergan 2012-07-17 $17,052,000
5219226 Imaging and temperature monitoring system 1993-06-15
5109277 System for generating temperature images with corresponding absolute temperature values 1992-04-28
RE33857 Imaging of hot infrared emitting surfaces obscured by particulate fume and hot gases Peter C. Ariessohn 1992-03-24
4814868 Apparatus and method for imaging and counting moving particles 1989-03-21
4539588 Imaging of hot infrared emitting surfaces obscured by particulate fume and hot gases Peter C. Ariessohn 1985-09-03 $20,263,000