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Robert Thomas Held — 24 Patents

Microsoft: 22 patents #1,491 of 40,388Top 4%
SASharp Laboratories Of America: 1 patents #288 of 419Top 70%
Apple: 1 patents #12,397 of 18,612Top 70%
Seattle, WA: #1,019 of 21,776 inventorsTop 5%
Washington: #3,621 of 76,902 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Robert Thomas Held has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in September 2025. Robert Thomas Held ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Robert Thomas Held in Seattle, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12423042 Switching presentation of content between devices Luis R. Deliz Centeno 2025-09-23
12320973 Dynamic control of waveguide eye box Joel S. Kollin, Ishan Chatterjee, Benjamin Eliot LUNDELL, Christopher Charles AHOLT, Maria Esther Pace +2 more 2025-06-03
12019246 Control of variable-focus lenses in a mixed-reality device for presbyopes Bernard C. Kress, Ashley Saulsbury, Dmitry Reshidko 2024-06-25 $466,982,000
11953686 Combined birefringent material and reflective waveguide for multiple focal planes in a mixed-reality head-mounted display device Bernard C. Kress, Ashley Saulsbury, Dmitry Reshidko 2024-04-09 $549,960,000
11852824 Eye-imaging system with switchable hot mirrors Benjamin Eliot LUNDELL, Joel S. Kollin, Ishan Chatterjee, Maria Esther Pace, Mark Bolas +3 more 2023-12-26 $391,639,000
11768375 Control of variable-focus lenses in a mixed-reality device for presbyopes Bernard C. Kress, Ashley Saulsbury, Dmitry Reshidko 2023-09-26 $385,057,000
11076147 Stereoscopic display of objects Kevin James MacKenzie, Anatolie Gavriliuc 2021-07-27 $207,843,000
10890759 Automated variable-focus lens control to reduce user discomfort in a head-mounted display Dan Osborn, Apriet Kenig, Christian Michael Sadak, Sophia Siyuan Sun 2021-01-12 $215,405,000
10706281 Controlling focal parameters of a head mounted display based on estimated user age Richard Zachary ROBINSON, Christopher Charles AHOLT 2020-07-07 $159,510,000
10672103 Virtual object movement Semih Energin, Sergio Paolantonio, David A. Evans, Eric Scott Rehmeyer, Maxime Ouellet +3 more 2020-06-02 $84,040,000
10630965 Calibrating a near-eye display Anatolie Gavriliuc, Riccardo Giraldi, Szymon Stachniak, Andrew Frederick Muehlhausen, Maxime Ouellet 2020-04-21 $75,244,000
10606609 Context-based discovery of applications Semih Energin, Anatolie Gavriliuc, Maxime Ouellet, Riccardo Giraldi, Andrew Frederick Muehlhausen +1 more 2020-03-31 $74,701,000
10523930 Mitigating binocular rivalry in near-eye displays Matthew Calbraith Crisler, Bernard C. Kress 2019-12-31 $77,918,000
10523912 Displaying modified stereo visual content Matthew Calbraith Crisler 2019-12-31 $77,918,000
10311543 Virtual object movement Semih Energin, Sergio Paolantonio, David A. Evans, Eric Scott Rehmeyer, Maxime Ouellet +3 more 2019-06-04 $61,829,000
10313645 Variable emission period for scanned-beam display Andrew Pearson 2019-06-04 $61,829,000
10277943 Selective rendering of sparse peripheral displays based on user movements Matthew Calbraith Crisler, Eliezer Glik 2019-04-30 $87,413,000
10249095 Context-based discovery of applications Semih Energin, Anatolie Gavriliuc, Maxime Ouellet, Riccardo Giraldi, Andrew Frederick Muehlhausen +1 more 2019-04-02 $55,404,000
10216260 Selective rendering of sparse peripheral displays based on element saliency Matthew Calbraith Crisler, Eliezer Glik 2019-02-26 $52,330,000
10186086 Augmented reality control of computing device Riccardo Giraldi, Anatolie Gavriliuc, Michelle Chua, Andrew Frederick Muehlhausen, Joseph van den Heuvel 2019-01-22 $62,390,000
10136124 Stereoscopic display of objects Kevin James MacKenzie, Anatolie Gavriliuc 2018-11-20 $52,450,000
9874932 Avoidance of color breakup in late-stage re-projection Matthew Calbraith Crisler, Stephen Latta, Ashraf A. Michail, Martin Shetter, Arthur Tomlin 2018-01-23 $52,883,000
9865091 Localizing devices in augmented reality environment Riccardo Giraldi, Anatolie Gavriliuc, Michelle Chua, Andrew Frederick Muehlhausen, Joseph van den Heuvel +4 more 2018-01-09 $35,614,000
8284235 Reduction of viewer discomfort for stereoscopic images Chang Yuan, Scott Daly, Hao Pan 2012-10-09