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Robert Little — 70 Patents

Microsoft: 64 patents #199 of 40,388Top 1%
FIFpi Fireplace Products International: 5 patents #3 of 13Top 25%
PPPhillips Petroleum: 1 patents #1,680 of 2,260Top 75%
Redmond, WA: #51 of 8,547 inventorsTop 1%
Washington: #581 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #29,186 of 4,157,543Top 1%
70 Patents All Time
Robert Little has been granted 70 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in January 2022. Robert Little ranks #29,186 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.70%). Patent records list Robert Little in Redmond, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 70 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11231177 Fireplace system, heat exchanger and method Julian Mills 2022-01-25
10915695 Electronic document content augmentation Ali Taleghani, Kevin Michael Black, Kevin Roland Powell, Laura Licari, Leah Joy Brown +3 more 2021-02-09 $275,728,000
10740367 Displaying an indication of changes made to content at a source Douglas M. Taylor, Robyn Sambo, James S. Masson, Michael Gary Heyns, Victor Poznanski +6 more 2020-08-11 $116,675,000
10495314 Fireplace safety barrier system Julian Mills 2019-12-03
10474740 Virtual library providing content accessibility irrespective of content format and type Zeyad Rajabi, Scott Stiles 2019-11-12 $75,975,000
10309656 Fireplace system, heat exchanger and method Julian Mills 2019-06-04
10162805 Application programming interfaces for content curation Alexandre V. Grigorovitch 2018-12-25
9996515 Collaboration using multiple editors or versions of a feature Zeyad Rajabi, Scott Stiles 2018-06-12 $80,392,000
9946691 Modifying a document with separately addressable content blocks Alexandre V. Grigorovitch 2018-04-17 $52,531,000
9852115 Virtual library providing content accessibility irrespective of content format and type Zeyad Rajabi, Scott Stiles 2017-12-26 $39,944,000
9471556 Collaboration using multiple editors or versions of a feature Zeyad Rajabi, Scott Stiles 2016-10-18 $67,958,000
9110877 Method and apparatus for utilizing an extensible markup language schema for managing specific types of content in an electronic document Brian Jones, E. Mark Sunderland, Marcin Sawicki, Tristan Davis 2015-08-18 $29,234,000
8661332 Method and apparatus for document processing Jerry Dunietz, Charles P. Jazdzewski, David Ornstein, Rob Relyea, Oliver H. Foehr +3 more 2014-02-25 $35,687,000
8650482 Dynamic positioning and aligning tabs relative to margins indent and column width Stuart J. Stuple, Sergey Genkin, Igor Zverev 2014-02-11 $53,117,000
8214850 Text editor virtual backing store Jose M. Oglesby 2012-07-03 $17,614,000
8190653 Automatic file conversion to a target format Jonathan Bailor, Benjamin J. Bunker 2012-05-29 $15,522,000
7974991 Word-processing document stored in a single XML file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML Brian Jones, Andrew Bishop, Daniel R. Snyder, Marcin Sawicki, Anthony D. Krueger 2011-07-05 $15,908,000
7953696 Real-time synchronization of XML data between applications Tristan Davis, Ali Taleghani, Brian Jones, Marcin Sawicki, Shiraz J. Cupala +1 more 2011-05-31 $19,253,000
7945590 Programmability for binding data Tristan Davis, Brian Jones, Ali Taleghani, Marcin Sawicki, Mark Sunderland 2011-05-17 $20,389,000
7870854 Closed-loop control system for heating systems George H.K. Lau, Gordon Arthur Lloyd Coutts, Davinder Gopal Lal, Chi Ming Gavin Tham 2011-01-18
7827546 Mechanism for downloading software components from a remote source for use by a local software application Brian Jones, Jeff Reynar, Paul Broman 2010-11-02 $23,255,000
7797743 File conversion in restricted process Ambrose T. Treacy, Maithili Vijay DANDIGE, Eric Fox, Christopher C. White, David C. LeBlanc +2 more 2010-09-14 $27,616,000
7788290 Automatic file conversion to a target format Jonathan Bailor, Benjamin J. Bunker 2010-08-31 $11,672,000
7770180 Exposing embedded data in a computer-generated document Shawn Villaron, Brian Jones, Chad Rothschiller, Sharad K. Garg, Su-Piao Bill Wu +3 more 2010-08-03 $11,892,000
7752224 Programmability for XML data store for documents Tristan Davis, Ali Taleghani, Brian Jones, Marcin Sawicki, Alnur Ali 2010-07-06 $19,949,000