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Tandy Trower — 16 Patents

Microsoft: 16 patents #2,398 of 40,388Top 6%
Poulsbo, WA: #7 of 134 inventorsTop 6%
Washington: #6,223 of 76,902 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Tandy Trower has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in August 2016. Tandy Trower ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Tandy Trower in Poulsbo, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9411434 User interface for operating a computer from a distance Kathryn L. Parker, William T. Flora, Jeffrey C. Fong, Mark Gibson, Mark D. MacKenzie +4 more 2016-08-09 $42,929,000
8370744 User interface for operating a computer from a distance Kathryn L. Parker, William T. Flora, Jeffrey C. Fong, Mark Gibson, Mark D. MacKenzie +4 more 2013-02-05 $10,554,000
7698127 Grammar-based automatic data completion and suggestion for user input Mark Jeffrey Weinberg 2010-04-13 $18,577,000
7590680 Extensible robotic framework and robot modeling Joseph P. Fernando, Georgios Chrysanthakopoulos 2009-09-15 $22,769,000
7454462 Distributed computing services platform Joseph D. Belfiore, David G. Campbell, Steve Capps, Steven Cellini, Charles Fitzgerald +9 more 2008-11-18 $21,361,000
7263551 Distributed computing services platform Joseph D. Belfiore, David G. Campbell, Steve Capps, Steven Cellini, Charles Fitzgerald +9 more 2007-08-28 $25,091,000
7171353 Grammar-based automatic data completion and suggestion for user input Mark Jeffrey Weinberg 2007-01-30 $40,909,000
7003446 Grammar-based automatic data completion and suggestion for user input Mark Jeffrey Weinberg 2006-02-21 $33,122,000
6990513 Distributed computing services platform Joseph D. Belfiore, David G. Campbell, Steve Capps, Steven Cellini, Charles Fitzgerald +9 more 2006-01-24 $27,353,000
6922810 Grammar-based automatic data completion and suggestion for user input Mark Jeffrey Weinberg 2005-07-26 $187,851,000
6369821 Method and system for synchronizing scripted animations John Wickens Lamb Merrill, Mark Jeffrey Weinberg 2002-04-09 $219,884,000
6181351 Synchronizing the moveable mouths of animated characters with recorded speech John Wickens Lamb Merrill, Mark Jeffrey Weinberg 2001-01-30 $385,191,000
6121981 Method and system for generating arbitrary-shaped animation in the user interface of a computer Mark Jeffrey Weinberg, John Wickens Lamb Merrill 2000-09-19 $463,534,000
5983190 Client server animation system for managing interactive user interface characters Mark Jeffrey Weinberg, John Wickens Lamb Merrill 1999-11-09 $360,951,000
5726687 Auto-scrolling with mouse speed computation during dragging Joseph D. Belfiore, Christopher J. Guzak, Christopher E. Graham, Stephen M. Madigan, Randall Lee Kerr +1 more 1998-03-10 $625,580,000
5611060 Auto-scrolling during a drag and drop operation Joseph D. Belfiore, Christopher J. Guzak, Christopher E. Graham, Stephen M. Madigan, Randall Lee Kerr +1 more 1997-03-11 $241,237,000