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Thomas C. Underhill — 18 Patents

Microsoft: 18 patents #2,027 of 40,388Top 6%
Seattle, WA: #1,525 of 21,776 inventorsTop 8%
Washington: #5,373 of 76,902 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Thomas C. Underhill has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in August 2024. Thomas C. Underhill ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Thomas C. Underhill in Seattle, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12069015 System and method for converting an email thread to an instant message group Afraz Siddiqui, John J. Lotito, Joshua Bouckenooghe, Erin Woo, Allison Bellew Sousa +2 more 2024-08-20 $244,576,000
11677694 System and method for converting an email thread to an instant message group Afraz Siddiqui, John J. Lotito, Joshua Bouckenooghe, Erin Woo, Allison Bellew Sousa +2 more 2023-06-13 $297,914,000
11301635 Style extensibility applied to a group of shapes by editing text files Lutz Gerhard, Janet L. Schorr 2022-04-12 $182,277,000
10319125 Method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating and laying out a graphic within an application program Janet L. Schorr, Stephen T. Wells, Matthew J. Kotler, Scott Sherman, Ilan Berker 2019-06-11 $45,655,000
10248647 Style extensibility applied to a group of shapes by editing text files Lutz Gerhard, Janet L. Schorr 2019-04-02 $55,404,000
10176156 System and method for providing linked note-taking Cynthia Wessling, Apeksha Godiyal, Mustafa Bilal, Charles Duze, James M. Krantz +3 more 2019-01-08 $55,256,000
9747710 Method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating and laying out a graphic within an application program Janet L. Schorr, Stephen T. Wells, Matthew J. Kotler, Scott Sherman, Ilan Berker 2017-08-29 $34,413,000
9449303 Notebook driven accumulation of meeting documentation and notations Cynthia Wessling, Apeksha Godiyal, Syed Mustafa Bilal, Hong Lin, Nathaniel Stott +2 more 2016-09-20 $35,738,000
9170987 Style extensibility applied to a group of shapes by editing text files Lutz Gerhard, Janet L. Schorr 2015-10-27 $47,916,000
9165290 Sharing notes in online meetings Cynthia Wessling, Alex J. Simmons, Hong Lin, Stuti Jain, Kitty Chou +6 more 2015-10-20 $32,084,000
9037974 Creating and editing dynamic graphics via a web interface Lawrence Fubini Waldman, Scott Harrison Douglas, Robert Emmett Kolba, Jr. 2015-05-19 $44,188,000
8791955 Method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating and laying out a graphic within an application program Janet L. Schorr, Stephen T. Wells, Matthew J. Kotler, Scott Sherman, Ilan Berker 2014-07-29 $39,653,000
8516365 Dynamically laying out images and associated text using pre-defined layouts Crystal L. Hoyer, Lawrence Fubini Waldman, Jason S. Schneekloth, Christopher Michael Becker 2013-08-20 $25,328,000
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, Stephen T. Wells 2010-07-06 $19,949,000
7747944 Semantically applying style transformation to objects in a graphic Lutz Gerhard, Georg F. Petschnigg, John Schilling 2010-06-29 $14,156,000
7739591 Structuring graphics with placeholders Janet L. Schorr, Crystal L. Hoyer, Ilan Berker, Shain Heuer 2010-06-15 $15,264,000
7737996 Techniques for automated animation Lutz Gerhard, Matthew J. Kotler, Stephen T. Wells, Alexandre Gueniot 2010-06-15 $15,264,000
7348982 Method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating and laying out a graphic within an application program Janet L. Schorr, Stephen T. Wells, Matthew J. Kotler, Scott Sherman, Ilan Berker 2008-03-25 $28,373,000