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Samuel D. Hobson — 7 Patents

Microsoft: 7 patents #6,431 of 40,388Top 20%
Seattle, WA: #4,313 of 21,776 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #14,787 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Samuel D. Hobson has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in July 2001. Samuel D. Hobson ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Samuel D. Hobson in Seattle, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6262730 Intelligent user assistance facility Eric J. Horvitz, John S. Breese, David E. Heckerman, David O. Hovel, Adrian Klein +2 more 2001-07-17 $310,308,000
6260035 Intelligent user assistance facility for a software program Eric J. Horvitz, John S. Breese, David E. Heckerman, David O. Hovel, Adrian Klein +2 more 2001-07-10 $808,818,000
6233570 Intelligent user assistance facility for a software program Eric J. Horvitz, John S. Breese, David E. Heckerman, David O. Hovel, Adrian Klein +2 more 2001-05-15 $339,994,000
6025841 Method for managing simultaneous display of multiple windows in a graphical user interface Erich-Soren Finkelstein, Adrian Klein, Benjamin Waldman 2000-02-15 $478,841,000
6021403 Intelligent user assistance facility Eric J. Horvitz, John S. Breese, David E. Heckerman, David O. Hovel, Adrian Klein +2 more 2000-02-01 $784,161,000
5903896 Method for installing a file on demand using a preview Benjamin Waldman 1999-05-11 $214,776,000
5694559 On-line help method and system utilizing free text query Eric J. Horvitz, David E. Heckerman, John S. Breese, Erich S. Finkelstein, Gregory L. Shaw +2 more 1997-12-02 $163,256,000