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William Hill — 27 Patents

Microsoft: 24 patents #1,281 of 40,388Top 4%
Lockheed Martin: 3 patents #1,092 of 6,507Top 20%
Carnation, WA: #13 of 210 inventorsTop 7%
Washington: #3,049 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
William Hill has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in April 2010. William Hill ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list William Hill in Carnation, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7697003 Simplifying complex characters to maintain legibility Michael Duggan, Gregory Hitchcock, Beat Stamm, Geraldine Wade 2010-04-13 $18,577,000
7548239 Matching digital information flow to a human perception system Gregory Hitchcock, Kevin Larson 2009-06-16 $26,863,000
7512879 Intelligent virtual paging paradigm Steven E. Weil, Wei Zhu 2009-03-31 $21,547,000
7437683 Method and apparatus for fostering immersive reading of electronic documents John L. Beezer, Leroy B. Keely, Darryl E. Rubin, David M. Silver, Susan D. Woolf +1 more 2008-10-14 $28,172,000
7289123 Simplifying complex characters to maintain legibility Michael Duggan, Gregory Hitchcock, Beat Stamm, Geraldine Wade 2007-10-30 $46,422,000
7251778 Method and system for dynamically adapting the layout of a document to an output device Simon D Earnshaw, Simon Daniels, David M. Meltzer 2007-07-31 $29,904,000
7173619 Matching digital information flow to a human perception system Gregory Hitchcock, Kevin Larson 2007-02-06 $53,809,000
7145572 Methods and apparatus for improving the quality of displayed images through the use of display device and display condition information Bodin Dresevic, Gregory Hitchcock, Leroy B. Keely, John C. Platt, J. Turner Whitted 2006-12-05 $67,567,000
7134091 Quality of displayed images with user preference information Bodin Dresevic, Gregory Hitchcock, Leroy B. Keely, John C. Platt, J. Turner Whitted 2006-11-07 $41,408,000
7064786 Substrate electrical bounce compensation circuitry for digital cinematography image capture cameras Troy Pellizzer, Gary Nunes 2006-06-20 $16,978,000
6986103 Document formatting based on optimized formatting values John L. Beezer, Michael Duggan, Jerry Dunietz, David M. Silver, Geraldine Wade 2006-01-10 $36,413,000
6874889 Differential rate double shutter for cinematographic digital image capture cameras 2005-04-05 $20,743,000
6750875 Compression of image data associated with two-dimensional arrays of pixel sub-components Leroy B. Keely, Geraldine Wade, Gregory Hitchcock 2004-06-15 $100,331,000
6693615 High resolution display of image data using pixel sub-components Michael Duggan, Leroy B. Keely, Gregory Hitchcock, J. Turner Whitted 2004-02-17 $125,528,000
6674436 Methods and apparatus for improving the quality of displayed images through the use of display device and display condition information Bodin Dresevic, Gregory Hitchcock, Leroy B. Keely, John C. Platt, J. Turner Whitted 2004-01-06 $96,218,000
6624828 Method and apparatus for improving the quality of displayed images through the use of user reference information Bodin Dresevic, Gregory Hitchcock, Leroy B. Keely, John C. Platt, J. Turner Whitted 2003-09-23 $142,970,000
6577291 Gray scale and color display methods and apparatus Michael Duggan, Leroy B. Keely, Gregory Hitchcock, J. Turner Whitted 2003-06-10 $148,156,000
6421054 Methods and apparatus for performing grid fitting and hinting operations Michael Duggan, Leroy B. Keely, Gregory Hitchcock, J. Turner Whitted 2002-07-16 $190,694,000
6307566 Methods and apparatus for performing image rendering and rasterization operations Michael Duggan, Leroy B. Keely, Gregory Hitchcock, J. Turner Whitted 2001-10-23 $354,898,000
6278434 Non-square scaling of image data to be mapped to pixel sub-components Michael Duggan, Leroy B. Keely, Gregory Hitchcock, J. Turner Whitted 2001-08-21 $324,411,000
6243070 Method and apparatus for detecting and reducing color artifacts in images Michael Duggan, Leroy B. Keely, Gregory Hitchcock, J. Turner Whitted 2001-06-05 $418,247,000
6239783 Weighted mapping of image data samples to pixel sub-components on a display device Michael Duggan, Leroy B. Keely, Gregory Hitchcock, J. Turner Whitted 2001-05-29 $575,309,000
6225973 Mapping samples of foreground/background color image data to pixel sub-components Michael Duggan, Leroy B. Keely, Gregory Hitchcock, J. Turner Whitted 2001-05-01 $358,491,000
6219025 Mapping image data samples to pixel sub-components on a striped display device Michael Duggan, Leroy B. Keely, Gregory Hitchcock, J. Turner Whitted 2001-04-17 $1,284,684,000
6198505 High resolution, high speed digital camera Elbert L. Turner, Dennis L. Wilson 2001-03-06 $32,756,000