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Sean C. McDowell — 13 Patents

Microsoft: 13 patents #3,175 of 40,388Top 8%
Redmond, WA: #1,009 of 8,547 inventorsTop 15%
Washington: #7,874 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Sean C. McDowell has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in February 2011. Sean C. McDowell ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Sean C. McDowell in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2008.peak 31998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 3 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents2011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7882269 Modularization of broadcast receiver driver components Thaddeus C. Pritchett, David A. Goll, Terje K. Backman, Jay Alan Borseth 2011-02-01 $15,193,000
7844972 Resource manager architecture utilizing a policy manager Jayachandran Raja, Jai Srinivasan, Mukund Sankaranarayan, David S. Bakin, Robin Speed 2010-11-30 $23,766,000
7486692 Modularization of broadcast receiver driver components Thaddeus C. Pritchett, David A. Goll, Terje K. Backman, Jay Alan Borseth 2009-02-03 $26,486,000
7451450 Resource manager architecture Mukund Sankaranarayan, Forrest Curtis Foltz, George H. J. Shaw, Dale A. Sather, Andy R. Raffman +7 more 2008-11-11 $25,236,000
7337446 Resource manager architecture Mukund Sankaranarayan, Forrest Curtis Foltz, George H. J. Shaw, Dale A. Sather, Andy R. Raffman +7 more 2008-02-26 $32,154,000
7316020 Resource manager architecture utilizing a policy manager Jayachandran Raja, Jai Srinivasan, Mukund Sankaranarayan, David S. Bakin, Robin Speed 2008-01-01
7284244 Resource manager architecture with dynamic resource allocation among multiple configurations Mukund Sankaranarayan, Jai Srinivasan, Dale A. Sather, Andy R. Raffman, Michael B. Jones 2007-10-16 $16,447,000
7058947 Resource manager architecture utilizing a policy manager Jayachandran Raja, Jai Srinivasan, Mukund Sankaranarayan, David S. Bakin, Robin Speed 2006-06-06 $29,120,000
6901453 Modularization of broadcast receiver driver components Thaddeus C. Pritchett, David A. Goll, Terje K. Backman, Jay Alan Borseth 2005-05-31 $41,426,000
6799208 Resource manager architecture Mukund Sankaranarayan, Forrest Curtis Foltz, George H. J. Shaw, Dale A. Sather, Andy R. Raffman +7 more 2004-09-28 $151,077,000
6628301 Extensible framework for tuning to programming sources Colin Acton, Terje K. Backman, Jay Alan Borseth, David A. Goll, Thaddeus C. Pritchett 2003-09-30 $77,295,000
5990883 Unified presentation of programming from different physical sources David S. Byrne 1999-11-23 $266,988,000
5706411 Printer status user interface and methods relating thereto William B. McCormick, James O. Robarts, Steven J. Fluegel 1998-01-06 $154,459,000