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Steven A. Gabriel — 15 Patents

Microsoft: 9 patents #4,919 of 40,388Top 15%
AMAmpex: 5 patents #28 of 247Top 15%
WLWhisker Labs: 1 patents #7 of 12Top 60%
Takoma Park, MD: #5 of 110 inventorsTop 5%
Maryland: #1,839 of 35,612 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Steven A. Gabriel has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in July 2019. Steven A. Gabriel ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Steven A. Gabriel in Takoma Park, MD, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 1999.peak 61984: 3 patents19841986: 1 patents19861990: 1 patents19901999: 6 patents19992000: 1 patents20002001: 2 patents20012019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10354345 Optimizing and controlling the energy consumption of a building Christopher Dale Sloop, Michael Siemann 2019-07-16
6307887 Video encoder and decoder using bilinear motion compensation and lapped orthogonal transforms 2001-10-23 $354,898,000
6252608 Method and system for improving shadowing in a graphics rendering system John Michael Snyder, James T. Kajiya, Michael A. Toelle 2001-06-26 $336,606,000
6161119 Hardware multiplication of scaled integers James F. Blinn 2000-12-12 $487,846,000
6008820 Processor for controlling the display of rendered image layers and method for controlling same Joseph W. Chauvin, Howard Good, Kent E. Griffin, William Chambers Powell, III, George Easton Scott, III +3 more 1999-12-28 $310,134,000
6005582 Method and system for texture mapping images with anisotropic filtering Kent E. Griffin 1999-12-21 $541,640,000
5999189 Image compression to reduce pixel and texture memory requirements in a real-time image generator James T. Kajiya, William Chambers Powell, III 1999-12-07 $326,396,000
5973755 Video encoder and decoder using bilinear motion compensation and lapped orthogonal transforms 1999-10-26 $332,758,000
5886701 Graphics rendering device and method for operating same Joseph W. Chauvin, Howard Good, Kent E. Griffin, Mark Kenworthy, William Chambers Powell, III +4 more 1999-03-23 $839,667,000
5870097 Method and system for improving shadowing in a graphics rendering system John Michael Snyder, James T. Kajiya, Michael A. Toelle 1999-02-09 $713,279,000
4908874 System for spatially transforming images 1990-03-13
4631750 Method and system for spacially transforming images Lawrence J. Evans 1986-12-23
4472732 System for spatially transforming images Phillip P. Bennett 1984-09-18
4468688 Controller for system for spatially transforming images Michael A. Ogrinc 1984-08-28
4463372 Spatial transformation system including key signal generator Phillip P. Bennett 1984-07-31