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Stephen T. Wells — 17 Patents

Microsoft: 16 patents #2,398 of 40,388Top 6%
Intel: 1 patents #18,326 of 30,777Top 60%
Seattle, WA: #1,646 of 21,776 inventorsTop 8%
Washington: #5,777 of 76,902 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Stephen T. Wells has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in November 2020. Stephen T. Wells ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Stephen T. Wells in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2008.peak 31995: 1 patents19952000: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022005: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 3 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 2 patents2012: 2 patents20122014: 1 patents2017: 1 patents20172019: 1 patents2020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10838972 Storing service items in association with views Amit Sinha, Kavitha Balasubramanian, Dawid Kozlowski, Michael Ivan Borysenko 2020-11-17 $148,442,000
10319125 Method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating and laying out a graphic within an application program Janet L. Schorr, Matthew J. Kotler, Thomas C. Underhill, Scott Sherman, Ilan Berker 2019-06-11 $45,655,000
9747710 Method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating and laying out a graphic within an application program Janet L. Schorr, Matthew J. Kotler, Thomas C. Underhill, Scott Sherman, Ilan Berker 2017-08-29 $34,413,000
8791955 Method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating and laying out a graphic within an application program Janet L. Schorr, Matthew J. Kotler, Thomas C. Underhill, Scott Sherman, Ilan Berker 2014-07-29 $39,653,000
8161022 Efficiently and reliably providing message related data Bryan T. Starbuck, Gail Giacobbe, Alexander Vaschillo, Robert C. Combs, Sridhar Sundararaman +3 more 2012-04-17 $18,832,000
8150923 Schema hierarchy for electronic messages Alexander Vaschillo, Bryan T. Starbuck, Gail Giacobbe, Robert C. Combs, Sridhar Sundararaman +3 more 2012-04-03 $18,463,000
7750924 Method and computer-readable medium for generating graphics having a finite number of dynamically sized and positioned shapes Ilan Berker, Matthew J. Kotler, Janet L. Schorr, Scott Sherman, Thomas C. Underhill 2010-07-06 $19,949,000
7737996 Techniques for automated animation Lutz Gerhard, Matthew J. Kotler, Thomas C. Underhill, Alexandre Gueniot 2010-06-15 $15,264,000
7509352 Method and apparatus for record synchronization with conflict resolution Aaron Hartwell, Brian Trenbeath, David Raissipour, Ronald E. Gray, Kendall D. Keil 2009-03-24 $26,092,000
7424513 Decoupling an attachment from an electronic message that included the attachment Randy Winjum, Gail Giacobbe, Bryan T. Starbuck, John H. Lueders, Alexander Vaschillo +4 more 2008-09-09 $40,734,000
7370052 Efficiently and reliably providing message related data Bryan T. Starbuck, Gail Giacobbe, Alexander Vaschillo, Robert C. Combs, Sridhar Sundararaman +3 more 2008-05-06 $36,419,000
7348982 Method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating and laying out a graphic within an application program Janet L. Schorr, Matthew J. Kotler, Thomas C. Underhill, Scott Sherman, Ilan Berker 2008-03-25 $28,373,000
7194516 Accessing different types of electronic messages through a common messaging interface Gail Giacobbe, Bryan T. Starbuck, Randy Winjum, John H. Lueders, Alexander Vaschillo +4 more 2007-03-20 $44,982,000
6954782 Method for continuously processing electronic messages throughout a transition between online and offline states Scott A. Thurlow, David Raissipour, Robert M. Price 2005-10-11 $69,838,000
6457879 Method for continouously processing electronic messages throughout a transition between online and offline states Scott A. Thurlow, David Raissipour, Robert M. Price 2002-10-01 $150,453,000
6073137 Method for updating and displaying the hierarchy of a data store Alon Asher Brown, Scott A. Thurlow 2000-06-06 $373,922,000
5471604 Method for locating sector data in a memory disk by examining a plurality of headers near an initial pointer Robert Nasry Hasbun 1995-11-28 $29,998,000