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Steven J. Sinofsky — 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
Steven J. Sinofsky has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in May 2012. Steven J. Sinofsky ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Steven J. Sinofsky in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1995.peak 11995: 1 patents19951997: 1 patents19972007: 1 patents20072012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8171394 Methods and systems for providing a customized user interface for viewing and editing meta-data Brandon V. Taylor, Brian Jones, Hani Saliba, Jeffrey Jay Johnson, Lauren Antonoff +2 more 2012-05-01 $24,840,000
7231597 Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for creating asides within an electronic document Owen C. Braun, Christopher Pratley, Peter Loren Engrav, Mark Yalovsky, Alex J. Simmons 2007-06-12 $35,608,000
5664178 Method and system for organizing internal structure of a file 1997-09-02 $218,370,000
5442793 Method and system for locating an inherited virtual function member of a derived class Bradford A. Christian, Scott Randell 1995-08-15 $187,793,000