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William Ben Kunz — 10 Patents

Microsoft: 10 patents #4,378 of 40,388Top 15%
Seattle, WA: #2,987 of 21,776 inventorsTop 15%
Washington: #10,505 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
William Ben Kunz has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in September 2019. William Ben Kunz ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list William Ben Kunz in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2009.peak 32009: 3 patents20092010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents20112013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents20152019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10409381 Gestures, interactions, and common ground in a surface computing environment Meredith June Morris, Eric J. Horvitz, Andrew D. Wilson, F. David Jones, Stephen E. Hodges +7 more 2019-09-10 $58,792,000
9134798 Gestures, interactions, and common ground in a surface computing environment Meredith June Morris, Eric J. Horvitz, Andrew D. Wilson, F. David Jones, Stephen E. Hodges +7 more 2015-09-15 $32,492,000
8681127 Touch discrimination Stephen E. Hodges, Hrvoje Benko, Ian M. Sands, David Alexander Butler, Shahram Izadi +1 more 2014-03-25 $29,958,000
8436789 Surface puck Steven Bathiche, Hrvoje Benko, Stephen E. Hodges, Shahram Izadi, David Alexander Butler +1 more 2013-05-07 $27,755,000
8432366 Touch discrimination Stephen E. Hodges, Hrvoje Benko, Ian M. Sands, David Alexander Butler, Shahram Izadi +1 more 2013-04-30 $25,167,000
8078953 Math calculation in word processors Xin Li, Luke Kelly, Jinsong Yu, Seth Atkinson, Murray Sargent 2011-12-13 $13,784,000
7752148 Math problem checker Jinsong Yu, Seth Atkinson, Luke Kelly, Larry Israel, Xin Li 2010-07-06 $19,949,000
7613754 Contemporaneous symbolic and numeric presentation Jinsong Yu 2009-11-03 $22,743,000
7574465 Displaying variables stored in calculators Jinsong Yu, Robert Scott Dietz, Luke Kelly 2009-08-11 $34,426,000
7495666 Intelligent graph range for computer algebra system Jinsong Yu, Seth Atkinson 2009-02-24 $16,710,000