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Stephen M. Hirsch — 4 Patents

Microsoft: 4 patents #10,758 of 40,388Top 30%
Seattle, WA: #6,924 of 21,776 inventorsTop 35%
Washington: #23,275 of 76,902 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Stephen M. Hirsch has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in July 2000. Stephen M. Hirsch ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Stephen M. Hirsch in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2000Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1998.peak 21996: 1 patents19961998: 2 patents19982000: 1 patents2000

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6088711 Method and system for defining and applying a style to a paragraph Ronald A. Fein, Jason T. Barnett 2000-07-11 $481,169,000
5832528 Method and system for selecting text with a mouse input device in a computer system Andrew Kwatinetz, Antoine Leblond, G. Christopher Peters 1998-11-03 $271,169,000
5761689 Autocorrecting text typed into a word processing document Steven James Rayson, Dean J. Hachamovitch, Andrew Kwatinetz 1998-06-02 $118,572,000
5574840 Method and system for selecting text utilizing a plurality of text using switchable minimum granularity of selection Andrew Kwatinetz, Antoine Leblond, G. Christopher Peters 1996-11-12 $143,615,000