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Rudolph Balaz — 45 Patents

Microsoft: 44 patents #433 of 40,388Top 2%
MIMircosoft: 1 patents #6 of 57Top 15%
Woodland, WA: #1 of 61 inventorsTop 2%
Washington: #1,365 of 76,902 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #64,393 of 4,157,543Top 2%
45 Patents All Time
Rudolph Balaz has been granted 45 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in October 2018. Rudolph Balaz ranks #64,393 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Rudolph Balaz in Woodland, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 16 patents in 2008.peak 161998: 1 patents19982005: 2 patents2006: 4 patents20062007: 7 patents2008: 16 patents20082009: 5 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 3 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents2018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 45 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10114740 Memory management techniques Steve Pronovost, Maxwell Abernethy, Ameet Chitre 2018-10-30 $61,995,000
9158699 Memory management techniques Steve Pronovost, Maxwell Abernethy, Ameet Chitre 2015-10-13 $36,364,000
8924677 Memory management techniques Steve Pronovost, Maxwell Abernethy, Ameet Chitre 2014-12-30 $26,363,000
8627036 Memory management techniques Steve Pronovost, Maxwell Abernethy, Ameet Chitre 2014-01-07 $21,622,000
8400665 Generic interface Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman +2 more 2013-03-19 $16,508,000
8213027 Generic interface Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman +2 more 2012-07-03 $17,614,000
8199131 Synchronization of plugins Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman +2 more 2012-06-12 $20,322,000
8166388 Overlaying electronic ink Alexander G. Gounares, Steve Dodge, Tobiasz Zielinski, Arin J. Goldberg, Eugene A. Tsimberg +9 more 2012-04-24 $16,249,000
7973957 Generic interface Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman +2 more 2011-07-05 $15,908,000
7715630 Interfacing with ink Alexander Gounares, Steve Dodge, Timothy H. Kannapel, Subha Bhattacharyay, Manoj K. Biswas +10 more 2010-05-11 $12,269,000
7515139 Display attribute modification Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman +2 more 2009-04-07 $26,157,000
7511836 Memory management in a multi-threaded environment Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman +2 more 2009-03-31 $21,547,000
7499035 Focus management using in-air points Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Shiraz Somji, Sam J. George, Brigette Krantz 2009-03-03 $17,333,000
7499058 Programmatical access to handwritten electronic ink in a tree-based rendering environment Shawn A. Van Ness, Sam J. George, Stefan Wick, Brian Ewanchuk, Todd A. Torset +16 more 2009-03-03 $17,333,000
7483017 Ink collection and rendering Andrew Silverman, Sam J. George, Shiraz Somji, Koji Kato 2009-01-27 $26,733,000
7463371 Ordering of events between different input sources Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman +2 more 2008-12-09 $23,423,000
7453585 Error notification handling Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman +2 more 2008-11-18 $21,361,000
7450261 Wet ink Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman +2 more 2008-11-11 $25,236,000
7446894 Synchronization of plugins Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman +2 more 2008-11-04 $40,487,000
7443531 Multiple queues handling information Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman +2 more 2008-10-28 $20,407,000
7436535 Real-time inking Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman +2 more 2008-10-14 $28,172,000
7428736 Framework for ordered handling of information Steve Dodge, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, Arin J. Goldberg, Brigette Krantz, Kyril Feldman +2 more 2008-09-23 $44,086,000
7427984 Point erasing Vladimir Smirnov, Shiraz Somji, Sam J. George, Koji Kato, Quan Binh To +2 more 2008-09-23 $44,086,000
7397949 Serial storage of ink and its properties Bodin Dresevic, Donald D. Karlov, Subha Bhattacharyay, Patrick Haluptzok 2008-07-08 $28,005,000
7350073 VPN enrollment protocol gateway Victor W. Heller, Xiaohong Su, Keith R. Vogel 2008-03-25 $28,373,000