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William Gould — 10 Patents

Microsoft: 7 patents #6,431 of 40,388Top 20%
Redmond, WA: #1,344 of 8,547 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #10,505 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
William Gould has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in February 2018. William Gould ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list William Gould in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2014.peak 31984: 1 patents19841986: 1 patents19861997: 1 patents19972011: 1 patents20112014: 3 patents20142015: 1 patents20152017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9894174 Finding and consuming web subscriptions in a web browser Amar S. Gandhi, Jane T. Kim, John H. Lueders, Sean Lyndersay, Warren G. Stevens +2 more 2018-02-13 $44,475,000
9762668 Content syndication platform Amar S. Gandhi, Edward J. Praitis, Jane T. Kim, Sean Lyndersay, Walter V. von Koch +2 more 2017-09-12 $27,507,000
9104773 Finding and consuming web subscriptions in a web browser Amar S. Gandhi, Jane T. Kim, John H. Lueders, Sean Lyndersay, Warren G. Stevens +2 more 2015-08-11 $31,793,000
8832571 Finding and consuming web subscriptions in a web browser Amar S. Gandhi, Jane T. Kim, John H. Lueders, Sean Lyndersay, Warren G. Stevens +2 more 2014-09-09 $31,811,000
8751936 Finding and consuming web subscriptions in a web browser Amar S. Gandhi, Jane T. Kim, John H. Lueders, Sean Lyndersay, Warren G. Stevens +2 more 2014-06-10 $30,051,000
8661459 Content syndication platform Amar S. Gandhi, Edward J. Praitis, Jane T. Kim, Sean Lyndersay, Walter V. von Koch +2 more 2014-02-25 $35,687,000
7865830 Feed and email content Jane T. Kim, Amar S. Gandhi, Walter V. von Koch, Sean Lyndersay, Edward J. Praitis +1 more 2011-01-04 $27,759,000
D381592 Combined sensor and alarm unit for a wood stove pipe system 1997-07-29
4599953 Garbage to hydrocarbon fuel conversion system 1986-07-15
4482027 Acoustic trap for discharging fire arms 1984-11-13