Thomas J. O'Rourke has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft . The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in July 2018. Thomas J. O'Rourke ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Thomas J. O'Rourke in Plano, TX, US.
Patents per Year Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2018 Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2001. peak 3 1994: 1 patents 1994 1996: 1 patents 1996 1998: 2 patents 1998 2000: 1 patents 2000 2001: 3 patents 2001 2003: 1 patents 2003 2012: 1 patents 2012 2013: 1 patents 2013 2018: 1 patents 2018 Issued Patents All Time
Showing 1–12 of 12 patents
Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx Value ⓘ
10022641 Through the water projectile toy — 2018-07-17
8454038 Bi-directional propulsion caster — 2013-06-04
8297630 Bi-directional propulsion caster — 2012-10-30
6601112 Method and computer program product for reducing the buffer requirements of processing components George H. J. Shaw , Bryan A. Woodruff 2003-07-29
$214,504,000
6212574 User mode proxy of kernel mode operations in a computer operating system George H. J. Shaw , Bryan A. Woodruff 2001-04-03
$435,537,000
6209041 Method and computer program product for reducing inter-buffer data transfers between separate processing components George H. J. Shaw , Bryan A. Woodruff 2001-03-27
$347,202,000
6205492 Method and computer program product for interconnecting software drivers in kernel mode George H. J. Shaw , Bryan A. Woodruff 2001-03-20
$583,891,000
6027393 Recreational foam float with squirting device — 2000-02-22
5815689 Method and computer program product for synchronizing the processing of multiple data streams and matching disparate processing rates using a standardized clock mechanism George H. J. Shaw , Bryan A. Woodruff 1998-09-29
$202,399,000
D398695 Recreational foam float — 1998-09-22
5490047 Illuminated ball Bruce D. Lund 1996-02-06
5320359 Foam dart and shield combination Sam K. Harwell, IV 1994-06-14
