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Aaron M. Contorer — 11 Patents

Microsoft: 11 patents #3,886 of 40,388Top 10%
Kirkland, WA: #539 of 3,517 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #9,483 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Aaron M. Contorer has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in October 2010. Aaron M. Contorer ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Aaron M. Contorer in Kirkland, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1997.peak 31997: 3 patents19971998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents20002002: 1 patents20022007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents20082010: 2 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7814499 Urgent replication facility Dave D. Straube, Arnold S. Miller, Balan Sethu Raman, Pradyumna K. Misra, Michael R. C. Seaman 2010-10-12 $16,215,000
7788678 Urgent replication facility Dave D. Straube, Arnold S. Miller, Balan Sethu Raman, Pradyumna K. Misra, Michael R. C. Seaman 2010-08-31 $11,672,000
7430744 Urgent replication facility Dave D. Straube, Arnold S. Miller, Balan Sethu Raman, Pradyumna K. Misra, Michael R. C. Seaman 2008-09-30 $45,460,000
7200847 Urgent replication facility Dave D. Straube, Arnold S. Miller, Balan Sethu Raman, Pradyumna K. Misra, Michael R. C. Seaman 2007-04-03 $35,945,000
6412017 Urgent replication facility Dave D. Straube, Arnold S. Miller, Balan Sethu Raman, Pradyumna K. Misra, Michael R. C. Seaman 2002-06-25 $205,030,000
6081898 Unification of directory service with file system service Arnold S. Miller, Yuval Neeman, Pradyumna K. Misra, Michael R. C. Seaman, Darryl E. Rubin 2000-06-27 $474,025,000
5892904 Code certification for network transmission Robert G. Atkinson, Robert M. Price 1999-04-06 $472,732,000
5815665 System and method for providing trusted brokering services over a distributed network Jeffrey A. Teper, Sudheer Koneru, Gordon John Mangione, Rudolph Balaz, Lucy Chao 1998-09-29 $202,399,000
5689700 Unification of directory service with file system services Arnold S. Miller, Yuval Neeman, Pradyumna K. Misra, Michael R. C. Seaman, Darryl E. Rubin 1997-11-18 $138,739,000
5675787 Unification of directory service with file system services Arnold S. Miller, Yuval Neeman, Pradyumna K. Misra, Michael R. C. Seaman, Darryl E. Rubin 1997-10-07 $145,257,000
5649194 Unification of directory service with file system services Arnold S. Miller, Yuval Neeman, Pradyumna K. Misra, Michael R. C. Seaman, Darryl E. Rubin 1997-07-15 $251,427,000