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William A. S. Buxton — 26 Patents

Microsoft: 20 patents #1,724 of 40,388Top 5%
Xerox: 3 patents #3,111 of 8,622Top 40%
SGSilicon Graphics: 3 patents #151 of 758Top 20%
Toronto, CA: #201 of 9,482 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
William A. S. Buxton has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in April 2021. William A. S. Buxton ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list William A. S. Buxton in Toronto, ON, CA.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2012.peak 41996: 1 patents19961997: 2 patents2000: 2 patents20002001: 1 patents2008: 3 patents20082011: 1 patents2012: 4 patents20122013: 2 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10983694 Disambiguation of keyboard input Richard L. Hughes, Kenneth P. Hinckley, Michel Pahud, Irina Spiridonova 2021-04-20 $234,252,000
10795450 Hover interaction using orientation sensing Abigail Sellen, Samuel Gavin Smyth, Kenton O'Hara, Richard Banks 2020-10-06 $143,945,000
10289239 Application programming interface for multi-touch input detection Michel Pahud, Kenneth P. Hinckley, Andrew M. Webb, Eyal Ofek 2019-05-14 $91,396,000
9940016 Disambiguation of keyboard input Richard L. Hughes, Kenneth P. Hinckley, Michel Pahud, Irina Spiridonova 2018-04-10 $46,319,000
9521364 Ambulatory presence features Christian Huitema, Jonathan E. Paff, Zicheng Liu, Rajesh K. Hegde, Zhengyou Zhang +3 more 2016-12-13 $34,425,000
9223471 Touch screen control Michel Pahud, Kenneth P. Hinckley 2015-12-29 $41,518,000
8941710 Ambulatory presence features Christian Huitema, Jonathan E. Paff, Zicheng Liu, Rajesh K. Hegde, Zhengyou Zhang +3 more 2015-01-27 $25,395,000
8938558 Modifying functionality based on distances between devices Michel Pahud, Kenneth P. Hinckley, Gina D. Venolia 2015-01-20 $73,723,000
8902181 Multi-touch-movement gestures for tablet computing devices Kenneth P. Hinckley, Michel Pahud 2014-12-02 $33,198,000
8879887 Employing artifacts for video indexing 2014-11-04 $37,690,000
8542237 Parametric font animation Michel Pahud, Sharon K. Cunnington 2013-09-24 $26,946,000
8514264 Remote workspace sharing Ankur Agarwal, Antonio Criminisi, Andrew Blake, Andrew William Fitzgibbon 2013-08-20 $25,328,000
8340267 Audio transforms in connection with multiparty communication Dinei Florencio, Alejandro Acero, Phillip A. Chou, Ross Cutler, Jason Garms +4 more 2012-12-25
8325020 Unique identification of devices using color detection Shahram Izadi, Malcolm Hall, Stephen E. Hodges, David Alexander Butler 2012-12-04 $15,162,000
8253774 Ambulatory presence features Christian Huitema, John E. Paff, Zicheng Liu, Rajesh K. Hegde, Zhengyou Zhang +3 more 2012-08-28 $15,180,000
8171431 Handle flags Tovi Grossman, Patrick Baudisch, Kenneth P. Hinckley, Raman K. Sarin 2012-05-01 $24,840,000
7884734 Unique identification of devices using color detection Shahram Izadi, Malcolm Hall, Stephen E. Hodges, David Alexander Butler 2011-02-08 $17,009,000
D578117 Electronic tablet Robert Freed, Margaret K. Johnson, Margaret E. Winsor 2008-10-07
D577720 Electronic tablet Robert Freed, Margaret K. Johnson, Margaret E. Winsor 2008-09-30
D565653 Electronic pen Robert Freed, Margaret K. Johnson 2008-04-01
6317128 Graphical user interface with anti-interference outlines for enhanced variably-transparent applications Beverly L. Harrison, Shumin Zhai 2001-11-13 $3,042,000
6118427 Graphical user interface with optimal transparency thresholds for maximizing user performance and system efficiency Beverly L. Harrison, Kim J. Vicente 2000-09-12 $12,326,000
6094197 Graphical keyboard Gordon Kurtenbach 2000-07-25 $20,943,000
5666499 Clickaround tool-based graphical interface with two cursors Thomas Baudel, George Fitzmaurice, Beverly L. Harrison, Gordon Kurtenbach, Russell N. Owen 1997-09-09 $71,538,000
5617114 User interface having click-through tools that can be composed with other tools Eric A. Bier, Maureen C. Stone 1997-04-01 $16,728,000