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Willem Boer — 13 Patents

Microsoft: 4 patents #10,758 of 40,388Top 30%
OSOis Optical Imaging Systems: 2 patents #17 of 32Top 55%
PSPlanar Systems: 2 patents #26 of 88Top 30%
Apple: 2 patents #9,294 of 18,612Top 50%
LCLg Philips Lcd Co.: 1 patents #528 of 888Top 60%
LG: 1 patents #17,528 of 26,165Top 70%
EDEnergy Conversion Devices: 1 patents #133 of 231Top 60%
Troy, MI: #276 of 2,712 inventorsTop 15%
Michigan: #7,031 of 86,293 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Willem Boer has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in July 2014. Willem Boer ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Willem Boer in Troy, MI, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8780088 Infrared sensor integrated in a touch panel Steven Bathiche, Stephen E. Hodges, Shahram Izadi 2014-07-15 $37,194,000
8654083 Touch screen liquid crystal display Steve Porter Hotelling, Wei Chen, Christoph H. Krah, John Greer Elias, Wei H. Yao +3 more 2014-02-18 $84,256,000
8466902 Infrared sensor integrated in a touch panel Steven Bathiche, Stephen E. Hodges, Shahram Izadi 2013-06-18 $36,705,000
8411070 Infrared sensor integrated in a touch panel Steven Bathiche, Stephen E. Hodges, Shahram Izadi 2013-04-02 $14,898,000
8243027 Touch screen liquid crystal display Steve Porter Hotelling, Wei Chen, Christoph H. Krah, John Greer Elias, Wei H. Yao +3 more 2012-08-14 $121,602,000
7924272 Infrared sensor integrated in a touch panel Steven Bathiche, Stephen E. Hodges, Shahram Izadi 2011-04-12 $11,368,000
7445948 Method of making a TFT array with photo-imageable insulating layer over address lines John Z. Zhong 2008-11-04 $99,000
6995743 Light sensitive display Adiel Abileah 2006-02-07 $2,200,000
6608448 Organic light emitting device 2003-08-19 $4,715,000
6507045 LCD with increased pixel opening sizes Tieer Gu 2003-01-14
5994836 Organic light emitting diode (OLED) structure and method of making same John Z. Zhong, Scott V. Thomsen 1999-11-30
5872370 TFT with reduced channel length and parasitic capacitance Tieer Gu 1999-02-16
4678542 Self-alignment process for thin film diode array fabrication Atsushi Kawasaki 1987-07-07 $551,000