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Rick Duncan — 8 Patents

Microsoft: 7 patents #6,431 of 40,388Top 20%
Covington, KY: #19 of 117 inventorsTop 20%
Kentucky: #1,428 of 11,577 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Rick Duncan has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in February 2025. Rick Duncan ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Rick Duncan in Covington, KY, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12220731 Waste disposal system 2025-02-11
9875149 Preventing sync interruptions Sarah McDevitt, Clement Fauchere, Chris Whytock, Adrian Garside 2018-01-23 $52,883,000
9417701 Flick gesture Emily K. Rimas Ribikauskas, Jeffrey W. Pettiross, Leroy B. Keely, Matthew R. Lerner, Robert J. Jarrett +1 more 2016-08-16 $41,736,000
8847973 Automatic adjustment of computer interface colors using image processing John Michael Calandrino, Kyle Thomas Beck, Sanjeev Verma, David Ben Perry 2014-09-30 $23,102,000
8754855 Virtual touchpad Tom Alphin, David A. Perry, Chris Devaraj 2014-06-17 $47,794,000
7761814 Flick gesture Emily Rimas-Ribikauskas, Jeffrey W. Pettiross, Leroy B. Keely, Matthew R. Lerner, Robert J. Jarrett +1 more 2010-07-20 $20,395,000
7627834 Method and system for training a user how to perform gestures Emily Rimas-Ribikauskas, Jeffrey W. Pettiross, Leroy B. Keely, Matthew R. Lerner, Robert J. Jarrett +1 more 2009-12-01 $28,638,000
7614019 Asynchronous and synchronous gesture recognition Emily K. Rimas Ribikauskas, Jeffrey W. Pettiross, Leroy B. Keely, Matthew R. Lerner, Robert J. Jarrett +1 more 2009-11-03 $22,743,000