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Robert S. Williams — 18 Patents

Microsoft: 5 patents #8,859 of 40,388Top 25%
NVIDIA: 5 patents #1,433 of 7,811Top 20%
GGGateway Consultants Group: 3 patents #51 of 188Top 30%
WEWestinghouse Electric: 2 patents #1,558 of 5,139Top 35%
UGUS Government: 1 patents #24 of 238Top 15%
Sutherlin, OR: #1 of 6 inventorsTop 20%
Oregon: #2,430 of 28,073 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Robert S. Williams has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in May 2014. Robert S. Williams ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Robert S. Williams in Sutherlin, OR, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8719246 Generating and presenting a suggested search query Nitin Agrawal, Farid Hosseini, Sanaz Ahari, Maxim Stepin, Jason Bolla +1 more 2014-05-06 $28,438,000
7746803 Audio application programming interface Ashutosh Vidyadhar Tatake, Dugan O. Porter, Duncan McKay, Stephen Handley 2010-06-29 $14,156,000
7126051 Audio wave data playback in an audio generation system Todor Fay, Francisco J. Wong 2006-10-24 $47,982,000
6862172 Hinged mounting for multiple storage drives Vernon D. Erickson, David R. Davis, Thomas R. Carson, Alejandro Puentes 2005-03-01 $7,016,000
6739384 Method of continuously casting electrical steel strip with controlled spray cooling Jerry W. Schoen, Glenn S. Huppi 2004-05-25
6474402 Segmented roll for casting metal strip James R. Sauer, Ronald O'Malley 2002-11-05
6442038 Expansion card hold down assembly Vernon D. Erickson, David R. Davis, Thomas H. Carson, Alejandro Puentes 2002-08-27 $11,252,000
6392875 Hinged mounting for multiple storage drives Vernon D. Erickson, David R. Davis, Thomas R. Carson, Alejandro Puentes 2002-05-21 $34,221,000
6153821 Supporting arbitrary beat patterns in chord-based note sequence generation Todor C. Fay, David G. Yackley 2000-11-28 $335,510,000
6093881 Automatic note inversions in sequences having melodic runs Todor C. Fay 2000-07-25 $872,241,000
5651412 Strip casting with fluxing agent applied to casting roll Ronald O'Malley, Richard C. Sussman 1997-07-29 $3,665,000
5651413 In-situ conditioning of a strip casting roll Steven Campbell 1997-07-29 $3,665,000
5063988 Method and apparatus for strip casting Donald W. Follstaedt, John C. Powell, Richard C. Sussman 1991-11-12 $2,041,000
5036901 Electronic gap sensor and method Edward L. King, Steven Campbell 1991-08-06 $5,263,000
H892 Thin sheet casting with electromagnetic pressurization Steven R. Walk, R. Michael Slepian, Richard D. Nathenson 1991-03-05
4771820 Strip casting apparatus and method Donald F Baker 1988-09-20 $7,453,000
4749023 Cooling system for continuous metal casting machines Robert Draper, Wayne C. Sumpman, Robert J. Baker 1988-06-07 $4,476,000
4439209 Thermal decomposition apparatus Carl M. Wilwerding 1984-03-27