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William B. McCormick — 6 Patents

Microsoft: 4 patents #10,758 of 40,388Top 30%
Bellevue, WA: #1,768 of 6,950 inventorsTop 30%
Washington: #16,995 of 76,902 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
William B. McCormick has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in July 2002. William B. McCormick ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list William B. McCormick in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1995.peak 31995: 3 patents19951998: 1 patents19982000: 1 patents20002002: 1 patents2002

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6421709 E-mail filter and method thereof David Kopans, George Stojanoff 2002-07-16
6023723 Method and system for filtering unwanted junk e-mail utilizing a plurality of filtering mechanisms David Kopans 2000-02-08
5706411 Printer status user interface and methods relating thereto James O. Robarts, Sean C. McDowell, Steven J. Fluegel 1998-01-06 $154,459,000
5471563 System and method for automatic resolution reduction Stephen V. Dennis, Steve Shaiman, Robert FLAGG, Paul A. Schuster 1995-11-28 $185,148,000
5469532 System and method for font wrapping printer data Brett Cornell Gerlach, Patrick R. Lee, George H. Douglas 1995-11-21 $191,300,000
5467435 System and method for mode switching George H. Douglas, Stephen V. Dennis 1995-11-14 $90,806,000