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William Chen — 34 Patents

Microsoft: 12 patents #3,517 of 40,388Top 9%
SESeiko Epson: 10 patents #1,850 of 7,774Top 25%
MGMarconi Communications Gmbh: 4 patents #18 of 270Top 7%
REReltec: 1 patents #14 of 39Top 40%
CUColumbia University: 1 patents #1,151 of 2,492Top 50%
Google: 1 patents #14,887 of 22,993Top 65%
ANAlpha Networks: 1 patents #40 of 127Top 35%
RARockwell Automation: 1 patents #2,494 of 4,211Top 60%
DSD-Link Systems: 1 patents #3 of 9Top 35%
RCReliance Com/Tec: 1 patents #24 of 69Top 35%
Issaquah, WA: #47 of 1,767 inventorsTop 3%
Washington: #2,149 of 76,902 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #100,737 of 4,157,543Top 3%
34 Patents All Time
William Chen has been granted 34 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in July 2025. William Chen ranks #100,737 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.4%). Patent records list William Chen in Issaquah, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 34 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12355968 Video decoding implementations for a graphics processing unit Daniel Dinu, Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza, Barry Friemel 2025-07-08
12177445 Video decoding implementations for a graphics processing unit Daniel Dinu, Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza, Barry Friemel 2024-12-24 $262,656,000
12177444 Video decoding implementations for a graphics processing unit Daniel Dinu, Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza, Barry Friemel 2024-12-24 $262,656,000
11943443 Video decoding implementations for a graphics processing unit Daniel Dinu, Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza, Barry Friemel 2024-03-26 $372,864,000
11922668 Asynchronous region-of-interest adjudication for medical images Rebecca Ackermann, Thad Hughes, Teagan Daly, Scott McKinney, Rory SAYRES +5 more 2024-03-05 $62,822,000
11606559 Video decoding implementations for a graphics processing unit Daniel Dinu, Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza, Barry Friemel 2023-03-14 $417,100,000
11245906 Video decoding implementations for a graphics processing unit Daniel Dinu, Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza, Barry Friemel 2022-02-08 $249,808,000
10567770 Video decoding implementations for a graphics processing unit Daniel Dinu, Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza, Barry Friemel 2020-02-18 $61,429,000
9648325 Video decoding implementations for a graphics processing unit Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza, Eric S. Christoffersen, Sean M. Callahan, Daniel Dinu, Barry Friemel +2 more 2017-05-09 $28,083,000
8396114 Multiple bit rate video encoding using variable bit rate and dynamic resolution for adaptive video streaming Chuang Gu, Chun-Wei Chan, Stacey Spears, Thomas W. Holcomb, Chih-Lung Lin +1 more 2013-03-12 $20,251,000
8311115 Video encoding using previously calculated motion information Chuang Gu, Chun-Wei Chan, Stacey Spears, Thomas W. Holcomb 2012-11-13 $20,195,000
8270473 Motion based dynamic resolution multiple bit rate video encoding Chun-Wei Chan, Stacey Spears, Yaming He, Florin Folta, Chuang Gu +1 more 2012-09-18 $20,371,000
8254455 Computing collocated macroblock information for direct mode macroblocks Yongjun Wu, Weidong Zhao 2012-08-28 $15,180,000
8170102 Macroblock homogeneity analysis and inter mode prediction Vasudev Bhaskaran, Norihisa Hagiwara, Changick Kim 2012-05-01
7944965 Transform domain based distortion cost estimation Vasudev Bhaskaran, Changick Kim 2011-05-17
7843995 Temporal and spatial analysis of a video macroblock Vasudev Bhaskaran 2010-11-30
7830961 Motion estimation and inter-mode prediction Changick Kim, Vasudev Bhaskaran 2010-11-09
7751478 Prediction intra-mode selection in an encoder Changick Kim, Vasudev Bhaskaran 2010-07-06
7646433 User selectable image scaling Jeff Chen 2010-01-12
7606304 Method and apparatus for memory efficient compressed domain video processing Vasudev Bhaskaran 2009-10-20
7466845 Interactive photo system Vasudev Bhaskaran 2008-12-16
7372991 Method and apparatus for summarizing and indexing the contents of an audio-visual presentation Jau-Yuen Chen 2008-05-13
D549665 Remote controller for computer 2007-08-28
7190724 Method and apparatus for transform domain video processing Vasudev Bhaskaran 2007-03-13
6950473 Hybrid technique for reducing blocking and ringing artifacts in low-bit-rate coding Changick Kim, Vasudev Bhaskaran 2005-09-27