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William G. Evans — 11 Patents

Microsoft: 10 patents #4,378 of 40,388Top 15%
Yakima, WA: #13 of 266 inventorsTop 5%
Washington: #9,483 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
William G. Evans has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in January 2012. William G. Evans ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list William G. Evans in Yakima, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8104025 Extensible metadata James H. Hogg 2012-01-24 $16,228,000
7516441 Method and system for program editing and debugging in a common language runtime environment Jennifer Hamilton, Michael M. Magruder, James H. Hogg, Vance Morrison, Lawrence B. Sullivan +15 more 2009-04-07 $26,157,000
7500252 System and method for bridging object systems Dennis Angeline, Christopher W. Brumme, Raja Krishnaswamy, David S. Mortenson 2009-03-03 $17,333,000
7487498 Strategy for referencing code resources James H. Hogg, Suzanne M. Cook, Sean E. Trowbridge 2009-02-03 $26,486,000
7367015 Method and system for software program editing in common language runtime environment (CLRE) Jennifer Hamilton, Michael M. Magruder, Vance Morrison, Lawrence B. Sullivan, Sean E. Trowbridge +1 more 2008-04-29 $42,493,000
7266804 Strategy for selectively making non-public resources of one assembly visible to another James H. Hogg, Christopher W. Brumme, James S. Miller 2007-09-04 $26,539,000
7219330 Extensible metadata James H. Hogg 2007-05-15 $40,171,000
6883172 System and method for bridging managed and unmanaged object systems by utilizing an interface wrapper to facilitate transparent communications Dennis Angeline, Christopher W. Brumme, Raja Krishnaswamy, David S. Mortenson 2005-04-19 $56,316,000
6836884 Method and system for editing software programs Jennifer Hamilton, Michael M. Magruder, Vance Morrison, Lawrence B. Sullivan, Sean E. Trowbridge +1 more 2004-12-28 $117,865,000
6360218 Compact record format for low-overhead databases Jason L. Zander, Brian D. Harry 2002-03-19 $145,303,000
PP4839 Spur-type Red Delicious Apple tree Don R. Snipes 1982-04-20