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Andrew Nicholas — 10 Patents

Microsoft: 9 patents #4,919 of 40,388Top 15%
WNWorkman Nydegger: 1 patents #1 of 40Top 3%
Bellevue, WA: #1,161 of 6,950 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #10,505 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Andrew Nicholas has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in December 2018. Andrew Nicholas ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Andrew Nicholas in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2013.peak 32007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents20092013: 3 patents20132014: 1 patents20142015: 3 patents20152018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10162658 Virtual processor allocation techniques Rene Antonio Vega, Shuvabrata Ganguly, Ellsworth D. Walker, Manish Chablani 2018-12-25
9183030 Virtual processor allocation techniques Rene Antonio Vega, Shuvabrata Ganguly, Ellsworth D. Walker, Manish Chablani 2015-11-10 $38,752,000
9110698 Changing frequency of a virtual programmable interrupt timer in virtual machines to control virtual time Rene Antonio Vega 2015-08-18 $29,234,000
8984244 Concurrent virtual machine snapshots and restore Aaron S. Giles, Eric P. Traut, Idan Avraham, Xiongjian Fu, Osama M. Salem 2015-03-17 $21,315,000
8671405 Virtual machine crash file generation techniques Rich Yampell, Jacob Oshins, Rene Antonio Vega 2014-03-11 $51,704,000
8612633 Virtual machine fast emulation assist Lawrence R. Cleeton, Andrei Warkentin, Rene Antonio Vega, Jacob Oshins, John A. Starks 2013-12-17 $25,958,000
8607009 Concurrent virtual machine snapshots and restore Aaron S. Giles, Eric P. Traut, Idan Avraham, Xiongjian Fu, Osama M. Salem 2013-12-10 $31,292,000
8533709 Changing frequency of a virtual programmable interrupt timer in virtual machines to control virtual time Rene Antonio Vega 2013-09-10 $23,590,000
7581229 Systems and methods for supporting device access from multiple operating systems Douglas A. Watkins 2009-08-25 $29,810,000
7286974 Virtual PC printer driver Linden B. Siahaan, David Litwin, Michael P. Foley, Omar H. Shahine 2007-10-23