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William J. Westerinen — 80 Patents

Microsoft: 79 patents #115 of 40,388Top 1%
Redmond, WA: #35 of 8,547 inventorsTop 1%
Washington: #445 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #22,625 of 4,157,543Top 1%
80 Patents All Time
William J. Westerinen has been granted 80 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in July 2021. William J. Westerinen ranks #22,625 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.54%). Patent records list William J. Westerinen in Redmond, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 80 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11068049 Light guide display and field of view Steven John Robbins, Rajeev Badyal, Rod G. Fleck 2021-07-20 $255,793,000
10478717 Augmented reality and physical games Steven John Robbins, Lisa M. Hanson, Sung Ho Son, Richard J. Wattles 2019-11-19 $64,062,000
10388073 Augmented reality light guide display Steven John Robbins, Rajeev Badyal, Rod G. Fleck 2019-08-20 $63,531,000
10216637 Non-volatile memory cache performance improvement Cenk Ergan, Clark D. Nicholson, Dan Teodosiu, Dean L. DeWhitt, Emily N. Wilson +10 more 2019-02-26 $52,330,000
10191515 Mobile device light guide display Steven John Robbins, Rajeev Badyal, Rod G. Fleck 2019-01-29 $45,128,000
9717981 Augmented reality and physical games Steven John Robbins, Lisa M. Hanson, Sung Ho Son, Richard J. Wattles 2017-08-01 $22,358,000
9558590 Augmented reality light guide display Steven John Robbins, Rajeev Badyal, Rod G. Fleck 2017-01-31 $33,507,000
9503835 Service provisioning through a smart personal gateway device Rod G. Fleck, Rajeev Badyal, Philip Lionel Barnes, Vijayanand Vishwanathan 2016-11-22 $43,983,000
9405693 Non-volatile memory cache performance improvement Cenk Ergan, Clark D. Nicholson, Daniel Teodosiu, Dean L. DeWhitt, Emily Nicole Hill +10 more 2016-08-02 $47,886,000
9135599 Smart notebook J. Edward Allard, Julio Estrada, Michael A. Dougherty 2015-09-15 $32,492,000
9014685 Mobile device which automatically determines operating mode Steven Bathiche, Miller Thomas Abel, Julio Estrada, Charles J. Migos 2015-04-21 $29,497,000
8893224 Zone policy administration for entity tracking and privacy assurance Eric J. Horvitz, Ruston Panabaker, Alexander Frank, Johannes Klein 2014-11-18 $23,153,000
8839236 Virtual machine support for metered computer usage Todd L. Carpenter, Thomas G. Phillips, Curt A. Steeb, Zhangwei Xu, Alexander Frank 2014-09-16 $22,186,000
8803671 Active vibrations Joel Bernard Jacobs 2014-08-12 $19,073,000
8769236 Remote differential compression applied to storage James R. Hamilton, Ruston Panabaker, John Mark Miller 2014-07-01 $33,016,000
8619055 Active matrix touch sensing Craig S. Ranta 2013-12-31 $17,332,000
8560762 Limited memory power Ruston Panabaker, Robert Patrick Fitzgerald 2013-10-15 $28,338,000
8533801 System and method for binding a subscription-based computing system to an internet service Todd L. Carpenter, Shon Schmidt, David Jaroslav Sebesta 2013-09-10 $23,590,000
8522043 Hardware-based computer theft deterrence James Duffus, Curt A. Steeb, Thomas G. Phillips, Jeffrey Alan Herold, William Poole +1 more 2013-08-27 $28,689,000
8447847 Control of sensor networks Scott C. Forbes, Gregory Baribault, Ruston Panabaker 2013-05-21 $24,092,000
8416066 Active vibrations Joel Bernard Jacobs 2013-04-09 $13,653,000
8375219 Program and operation verification Hanumant Kumar Yadav, Todd L. Carpenter 2013-02-12 $17,029,000
8347046 Policy framework to treat data Ruston Panabaker, James R. Hamilton, Yadhu Gopalan, Mark Myers 2013-01-01
8255645 Non-volatile memory cache performance improvement Cenk Ergan, Clark D. Nicholson, Dan Teodosiu, Dean L. DeWhitt, Emily Nicole Hill +10 more 2012-08-28 $15,180,000
8250375 Generating unique data from electronic devices Todd L. Carpenter, Vladimir Sadovsky 2012-08-21 $14,505,000