PATENTS & INVENTION DISCLOSURES

(Last updated December 22, 2025)

Bill Buxton


Issued Patents

  1. Agarwal, A., Criminisi, A., Buxton, B.,Blake, A., Fitzgibbon, A., Remote Workspace Sharing, US Patent 8,125,510, Feb. 28, 2012; Extended/Adjusted: US Patent 8,514,264 B2, Aug. 20, 2013.
  2. Balakrishnan, R., Buxton, W., Fitzmaurice, G. & Kurtenbach, G., Digital tape drawing system  US Patent 7,102,642, Sept. 5, 2006.
  3. Balakrishnan, R., Buxton, W., Fitzmaurice, G. & Kurtenbach, G., Digital tape drawing system  US Patent 6,642,927, November 4, 2003.
  4. Bathiche, Steven Nabil, Buxton, William A., Lutz, Moshe, R., Gesture-Initiated Keyboard Functions,  US Patent 2014/0,078,063 A1, Mar. 20, 2014.
  5. Baudel, T., Buxton, W., Fitzmaurice, G., Harrison, B., Kurtenbach, G. & Owen, R., Clickaround tool-based graphical interface with two cursors. US Patent 5,666,499, Sept. 9, 1997.
  6. Baudel, Thomas, Fitzmaurice, George, Buxton; William, Kurtenbach, Gordon, Tappen, Charles, Liepe, Peter, Drawing system using design guides,  US Patent 6,377,240, April 23, 2002.
  7. Bier; Eric A., Buxton; William A. S., User interface having movable sheet with click-through tools, US Patent 5,581,670, Dec. 3, 1996.
  8. Bier, Eric A., Buxton; William A. S. & Stone; Maureen C., User interface having click-through tools that can be composed with other tools. US Patent 5,617,114, April 1, 1997.
  9. Buxton, William Arthur Stewart, Split User Interface, Application Publication, US20,050,140,696A1, Jun. 30, 2005.
  10. Buxton, William A.S., Employing Artifacts for Video Indexing. US Patent 8,879,887, Nov. 4, 2014.
  11. Buxton; William Arthur Stewart & Bell; Jeffrey Allen. System for maintaining orientation of a user interface as a display changes orientation, US Patent 6,115,025, Sept. 5, 2000.
  12. Buxton, W. & Bier, Eric A. User interface having simultaneously movable tools and cursor, US Patent 5,798,752, Aug. 25, 1998.
  13. Buxton, W. & Fitzmaurice, G.W., System for editing time-based temporal digital media including a pointing device toggling between temporal and translation-rotation modes, US Patent 5,790,769, Aug. 4, 1998.
  14. Buxton, W. & Fitzmaurice, G.W., User interface system and method for controlling playback time-based temporal digital media.  US Patent 6,191,784, Feb. 20, 2001.
  15. Buxton, W. & Goldthwaite, Flora P., Map Annotation Messaging.  US Patent 2011/0320114A1, Dec. 29, 2011.
  16. Buxton, William A.S, Hughes, Richard L., Hinckley, Kenneth P., Pahud, Michel, Spiridonova, Irina, Disambiguation of Keyboard Input. US Patent 9,940,016 B2, April 10, 2018.
  17. Buxton, W. & Kurtenbach, G. (2000). Graphical keyboard.  US Patent 6,094,197, July 25, 2000.
  18. Buxton, William A.S.; Harrison, Beverly L.; Vicente, Kim J.; Graphical user interface with optimal transparency thresholds for maximizing user performance and system efficiency, US Patent 6,118,427, Sept. 12, 2000.
  19. Buxton, William, Pahud, Michel & Hinckley, Ken. Touch Screen Control. US Patent 9,223,471, Dec. 29, 2015
  20. Fitzmaurice, G. & Buxton, W., Temporal data control system.  US Patent 5,973,669, Oct. 26, 1999.
  21. Fitzmaurice, G., Kurtenbach, G., Buxton, W. & Pieke, R.,  Pen Mouse System, US Patent 7,242,387, July 10, 2007 / US Patent 8,904,310, Dec. 2, 2014.
  22. Florencio; Dinei A., Acero; Alejandro, Buxton; William, Chou; Phillip A., Cutler; Ross G., Garms; Jason, Huitema; Christian, Quinn; Kori M., Rosenfeld; Daniel Allen, Zhang; Zhengyou,Audio transforms in connection with multiparty communication, US Patent 210/0195812 A1 August 5, 2010.
  23. Freed, Robert M., Buxton, William A.S., Johnson, Margaret.  Electronic Pen.  US Patent D565,653, April 1, 2008.
  24. Freed, Robert M., Buxton, William A. S., Johnson, Margaret & Winsor, Margaret.  Electronic Tablet.  US Patent D578,117, Oct. 7, 2008.
  25. Grossman, T., Baudisch, P., Hinckley, K.P., Buxton, W.A.S., & Sarin, R., Handle Flags. US Patent 8,171,431,B2, May 1, 2012.
  26. Harrison, B., Buxton, W., &  Zhai, S., Graphical user interface with anti-interference outlines for enhanced variably-transparent applications, US Patent 6,317,128, November 13, 2001.
  27. Hinckley; Kenneth P., Pahud; Michel, Buxton; William A. S., Computing Device Having Plural Display Parts for Presenting Plural Spaces, US Patent 2012/0154255 A1, Jun. 21, 2012.
  28. Hinckley; Kenneth P., Pahud; Michel, Buxton; William A. S., Multi-Touch-Movement Gestures for Tablet Computing Devices, US Patent 8,902,181, Dec. 2014.
  29. Hinckley; Kenneth P., Pahud; Michel, Buxton; William Arthur Stewart, Pfeuffer, Ken. Thumb and pen interaction on a mobile device, US Patent 10,635,291, April 28, 2020.
  30. Hinckley, Kenneth P., Pahud, Michel, Buxton, William Arthur Stewart, Xia, Haijun. Unified system for bimanual interactions, US Patent 10,684,758, June 16, 2020.
  31. Huitema; Christian, Buxton; William A. S., Paff; John E., Liu; Zicheng, Hegde; Rajesh Kutpadi, Zhang; Zhengyou, Quinn; Kori Marie, Li; Jin, Pahud; Michel. Ambulatory Presence Features, US Patent 8,253,774, August 28, 2012.
  32. Izadi, Shahram, Hall, Malcolm , Hodges, Stephen E., Buxton, William, & Butler, David Alexander. Unique identification of devices using color detection, US Patent 7,884,734, Feb. 8, 2011.
  33. Izadi, Shahram, Rosenfeld, Daniel A., Hodges, Stephen E., Taylor, Stewart, Butler, David Alexander & Buxton, William. Interactive surface computer with switchable diffuser, CA Patent 2716403 A1, Sept. 11, 2009.
  34. Mori; Yasuhiko, Morimitsu; Shinji, Oigo; Kazuhide, Tanaka; Takeshi, Bell; Eric Matthew, Chen; Liang, Dai; Juan, Buxton; William Arthur Stewart. User Character Input Interface with Modifier Support.  US Patent 9,189.077, Nov. 17, 2015.
  35. Pahud, Michel, Hinckley, Ken & Buxton, William A.S., Workplace Manipulation Unsing Mobile Device Gestures, US Patent 120,120,159,401A1, Jun. 21, 2012.
  36. Pahud, Michel, Buxton, William & Cunnington, Sharon,Parametric Font Animation.  US Patent 8,542,237, Sept. 24, 2013.
  37. Pahud, Michel, Hinckley, Ken & Buxton, William, Optimized telepresence using mobile device gestures, US Patent 9,294,722, March 22, 2015.
  38. Pahud, Michel, Hinckley, Ken & Buxton, William, Application for Multi-Touch Input Detection, US Patent 10,579,216 B2, March 3, 2020.
  39. Tang, John C., Buxton, William Arthur Stewarrt, Wilson, Andrew D., Inkpen, Kori M., Junuzovic, Sasa, Sellen, Abigail J., Rintel, Edward Sean. Established Perspective User Interface and User Experience for Video Meetings.US Patent 2023/0236713 A1,July 7, 2023.

Invention Disclosures

  1. Buxton W. (1994). Combined keyboard / touch tablet input device, Xerox Disclosure Journal, 19(2), 109-111.
  2. Buxton W. (1994). Two-handed Document Navigation, Xerox Disclosure Journal, 19(2), 103-108.