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Shawn Villaron — 22 Patents

Microsoft: 22 patents #1,491 of 40,388Top 4%
San Jose, CA: #2,945 of 32,062 inventorsTop 10%
California: #25,951 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Shawn Villaron has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in August 2023. Shawn Villaron ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Shawn Villaron in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2009.peak 42008: 3 patents20082009: 4 patents2010: 3 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 1 patents20122015: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11727194 Encoded associations with external content items 2023-08-15 $266,941,000
11514399 Authoring through suggestion 2022-11-29 $189,674,000
10824787 Authoring through crowdsourcing based suggestions 2020-11-03 $231,945,000
10423301 Sections of a presentation having user-definable properties Nathan Penner, Dachuan Zhang 2019-09-24 $78,899,000
10140270 Digital document change conflict resolution James Yamat, Robert R. Klingenberg, Evelyn G. Salazar, Andrey A. Efimchik, Jonathan Rutherfurd +1 more 2018-11-27 $63,003,000
9779073 Digital document change conflict resolution James Yamat, Robert R. Klingenberg, Evelyn G. Salazar, Andrey A. Efimchik, Jonathan Rutherfurd +1 more 2017-10-03 $44,178,000
9223395 Viewing presentations in a condensed animation mode Jeffrey Edwin Murray, Hannes Ruescher 2015-12-29 $41,518,000
8954857 Sections of a presentation having user-definable properties Nathan Penner, Dachuan Zhang 2015-02-10 $22,754,000
8108777 Sections of a presentation having user-definable properties Nathan Penner, Dachuan Zhang 2012-01-31 $19,052,000
8086963 Inheritance model between masters, layouts and slides Nathalie S. Collins, Hoa N. Lu, Andy Chin, Rebecca Levine 2011-12-27 $13,493,000
7890801 Method and computer-readable medium for verifying and saving an electronic document Brian Jones, Carol L. Liu, Chad Rothschiller, Robert McCaughey, Su-Piao Bill Wu 2011-02-15 $14,147,000
7882565 Controlled access to objects or areas in an electronic document Nathalie S. Collins 2011-02-01 $15,193,000
7783971 Graphic object themes Nick Robarge 2010-08-24 $15,140,000
7770180 Exposing embedded data in a computer-generated document Brian Jones, Chad Rothschiller, Robert Little, Sharad K. Garg, Su-Piao Bill Wu +3 more 2010-08-03 $11,892,000
7752632 Method and system for exposing nested data in a computer-generated document in a transparent manner Brian Jones, Chad Rothschiller 2010-07-06 $19,949,000
7620889 Method and system for linking data ranges of a computer-generated document with associated extensible markup language elements Brian Jones, Robert Little 2009-11-17 $30,079,000
7617229 Management and use of data in a computer-generated document Andrew Bishop, Ashley Morgan, Brian Jones, Chad Rothschiller, Charles S. Walker +5 more 2009-11-10 $34,464,000
7614000 File formats, methods, and computer program products for representing presentations Sharad K. Garg 2009-11-03 $22,743,000
7568182 Method and system for controlling software to facilitate cross-version collaboration of files Brian Jones, Chad Rothschiller, Robert Little 2009-07-28 $31,590,000
7464104 Method and computer-readable medium for loading the contents of a data file Brian Jones, Carol L. Liu, Chad Rothschiller, Robert McCaughey, Su-Piao Bill Wu 2008-12-09 $23,423,000
7464330 Context-free document portions with alternate formats Andrew Bishop, Brian Jones, Chad Rothschiller, Robert Little, Charles S. Walker 2008-12-09 $23,423,000
7337358 Method and computer-readable medium for verifying and saving an electronic document Brian Jones, Carol L. Liu, Chad Rothschiller, Robert McCaughey, Su-Piao Bill Wu 2008-02-26 $32,154,000