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Alain Gefflaut — 30 Patents

Microsoft: 28 patents #973 of 40,388Top 3%
Broadcom: 1 patents #5,859 of 9,346Top 65%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
Kirkland, WA: #159 of 3,517 inventorsTop 5%
Washington: #2,583 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #121,623 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time
Alain Gefflaut has been granted 30 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in April 2020. Alain Gefflaut ranks #121,623 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.9%). Patent records list Alain Gefflaut in Kirkland, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2013.peak 42003: 1 patents20032006: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 2 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 4 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 3 patents20152016: 4 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 3 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 2 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10628238 Decoupling background work and foreground work James A. Schwartz, Jr., Arun U. Kishan, Richard K. Neves, David B. Probert, Hari R. Pulapaka 2020-04-21 $75,244,000
10536322 Resource management for services Mark Livschitz, Arsalan Ahmad, Gregory J. Colombo 2020-01-14 $71,807,000
10491535 Adaptive data synchronization Jeroen Vanturennout, Jason Wadsworth, Yuanquan Zhang, Ranjib Singh Badh, Hari R. Pulapaka +1 more 2019-11-26 $66,445,000
10192067 Self-described security model for resource access Andrew Harper 2019-01-29 $45,128,000
10102377 Protection of secured boot secrets for operating system reboot Andrey Shedel 2018-10-16 $74,760,000
10088892 Selective blocking of background activity Hari R. Pulapaka, Jon Robert Berry, Emily N. Wilson, Qian Liu 2018-10-02 $62,856,000
9952903 Background task resource control Arun U. Kishan, Hari R. Pulapaka, Alex Bendetov, Pedro Miguel Sequeira de Justo Teixeira 2018-04-24 $35,451,000
9779248 Protection of secured boot secrets for operating system reboot Andrey Shedel 2017-10-03 $44,178,000
9582513 Accessing data in a compressed container through dynamic redirection Richard A. Pletcher, Malcolm James Smith, Alex Bendetov, Andrey Shedel, David J. Linsley +9 more 2017-02-28 $30,997,000
9519490 Adaptive data synchronization Jeroen Vanturennout, Jason Wadsworth, Yuanquan Zhang, Ranjib Singh Badh, Hari R. Pulapaka +1 more 2016-12-13 $34,425,000
9361136 Decoupling background work and foreground work James A. Schwartz, Jr., Arun U. Kishan, Richard K. Neves, David B. Probert, Hari R. Pulapaka 2016-06-07 $39,883,000
9326161 Application-driven control of wireless networking settings Zhou Wang, Chen Zhao, William Dunlap, Wolfgang Manousek 2016-04-26 $32,829,000
9292080 Selective blocking of background activity Hari R. Pulapaka, Jon Robert Berry, Emily N. Wilson, Qian Liu 2016-03-22 $35,394,000
9164803 Background task resource control Arun U. Kishan, Hari R. Pulapaka, Alex Bendetov, Pedro Miguel Sequeira de Justo Teixeira 2015-10-20 $32,084,000
9063775 Event aggregation for background work execution James A. Schwartz, Jr., Arun U. Kishan, Richard K. Neves, David B. Probert, Hari R. Pulapaka 2015-06-23 $32,988,000
9032413 Decoupling background work and foreground work James A. Schwartz, Jr., Arun U. Kishan, Richard K. Neves, David B. Probert, Hari R. Pulapaka 2015-05-12 $40,939,000
8869162 Stream processing on heterogeneous hardware devices Alexandre de Baynast, Arsalan Ahmad, Andreas Steinmetzler, Thomas Santen, Satnam Singh +1 more 2014-10-21 $25,843,000
8661407 Framework for programming embedded system applications Frank Siegemund, Matthias Günter Neugebauer 2014-02-25 $35,687,000
8621210 Ad-hoc trust establishment using visual verification Laurent Bussard, Ulrich Müller 2013-12-31 $17,332,000
8514789 Cognitive channel adaptation in wireless sensor networks Eldar Akchurin 2013-08-20 $25,328,000
8489701 Private virtual LAN spanning a public network for connection of arbitrary hosts Todd R. Manion, Arsalan Ahmad, Sandeep K. Singhal 2013-07-16 $16,054,000
8369343 Device virtualization Ulrich Müller 2013-02-05 $10,554,000
8213302 Management of a wireless network Zhou Wang, Andreas Steinmetzler 2012-07-03 $17,614,000
8171138 System and method for applying flexible attributes to execute asynchronous network requests Ivo W. Salmre, Friedrich van Megen, Wolfgang Manousek 2012-05-01 $24,840,000
7961726 Framework for optimizing and simplifying network communication in close proximity networks Zhou Wang, Alexandre de Baynast, Arsalan Ahmad, Andreas Steinmetzler 2011-06-14 $17,027,000