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Robert Matthew McKaughan — 9 Patents

Microsoft: 8 patents #5,580 of 40,388Top 15%
Redmond, WA: #1,504 of 8,547 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #11,701 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Robert Matthew McKaughan has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in November 2021. Robert Matthew McKaughan ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Robert Matthew McKaughan in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1998.peak 21996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents19971998: 2 patents19982000: 1 patents20002018: 2 patents20182020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11163938 Providing semantic based document editor Ruth Kikin-Gil, Daniel Paul Costenaro, Rebecca Seerveld, Wesley Hodgson, Charles Cummins 2021-11-02 $226,584,000
10699072 Immersive electronic reading Aaron James Monson, Gregory Hitchcock, Kevin Chad Larson, Mohammadreza Jooyandeh, Alexandre Pereira +7 more 2020-06-30 $108,992,000
10133715 Providing semantic based document editor Ruth Kikin-Gil, Daniel Paul Costenaro, Rebecca Seerveld, Wesley Hodgson, Charles Cummins 2018-11-20 $52,450,000
10043075 Eye feature identification Michael M. Bennett, Gregory Hitchcock, Kevin Larson, Paul Linnerud, Tanya Matskewich 2018-08-07 $49,974,000
6014744 State governing the performance of optional booting operations Forrest Curtis Foltz 2000-01-11 $573,008,000
5802305 System for remotely waking a sleeping computer in power down state by comparing incoming packet to the list of packets storing on network interface card Forrest Curtis Foltz, Rajasekhar Abburi 1998-09-01 $133,965,000
5784549 Reduced or fail-safe bootstrapping of a system having a graphical user interface Brian A. Reynolds, Pierre-Yves Santerre, Darryl Steven Richman, Ralph Lipe 1998-07-21 $250,289,000
5627964 Reduce or fail-safe bootstrapping of a system having a graphical user interface Brian A. Reynolds, Pierre-Yves Santerre, Darryl Steven Richman, Ralph Lipe 1997-05-06 $173,214,000
5544197 Cutover apparatus and methods for switching a signal between two transmission media Carl J. Baumgaertner 1996-08-06