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Andrew Thornton — 37 Patents

Microsoft: 18 patents #2,027 of 40,388Top 6%

WLWilliam Levene Limited: 5 patents #1 of 6Top 20%

DSDelta Systems: 4 patents #13 of 10Top 130%

DLDkb Household Uk Limited: 2 patents #10 of 22Top 50%

ZDZak Designs: 2 patents #10 of 18Top 60%

Kubota: 2 patents #849 of 2,059Top 45%

NLNicoventures Trading Limited: 1 patents #213 of 303Top 75%

TLTechnological Resources Pty Limited: 1 patents #84 of 192Top 45%

Overall (All Time): #88,321 of 4,157,543Top 3%

37 Patents All Time

Andrew Thornton has been granted 37 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in September 2025. Andrew Thornton ranks #88,321 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.1%). Patent records list Andrew Thornton in London, GA, GB.

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Showing 1–25 of 37 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12426638	Aerosolizable material for insertion into an aerosol provision device	Patrick Moloney, Karl Kaljura	2025-09-30
D1031331	Bear sculpture bookcase	—	2024-06-18
D1022547	Dinosaur sculpture bookcase	—	2024-04-16
D1022548	Unicorn sculpture bookcase	—	2024-04-16
D1022549	Tree sculpture bookcase	—	2024-04-16
11041308	Structural member having paired flanges and web	—	2021-06-22
10487506	Timber join	James M. Thornton	2019-11-26
10111382	Mid-mount riding grass mower with a mower unit cover	Phillip Sutton, Jr.	2018-10-30
9764258	Controlling froth flotation	Grant Ashley Wellwood, Damien Harding, Bruce Northway, Kevin Kropf	2017-09-19
D736564	Food product container	Oliver Breit	2015-08-18
9078509	Hand carried transport assembly	Oliver Breit	2015-07-14
8700816	Configuration space virtualization	Jacob Oshins, Brandon Allsop	2014-04-15	$31,167,000
8646952	Ride-on mower having headlight	Robert Walden	2014-02-11
8635612	Systems and methods for hypervisor discovery and utilization	Adrian J. Oney, Eric P. Traut, Nathan T. Lewis	2014-01-21	$30,556,000
8380987	Protection agents and privilege modes	Eric P. Traut, Forrest Curtis Foltz, Suyash Sinha	2013-02-19	$10,297,000
8296775	Efficient context switching of virtual processors by managing physical register states in a virtualized environment	Shuvabrata Ganguly	2012-10-23	$17,154,000
8176485	Launching hypervisor under running operating system	Shuvabrata Ganguly, John F. Wiederhirn, Kenneth D. Ray	2012-05-08	$25,243,000
8117346	Configuration space virtualization	Jacob Oshins, Brandon Allsop	2012-02-14	$18,405,000
D651868	Food slicer	—	2012-01-10
7975117	Enforcing isolation among plural operating systems	Marcus Peinado, Paul England, Bryan Willman, Yuqun Chen	2011-07-05	$15,908,000
7877760	Distributed hardware state management in virtual machines	Adrian J. Oney, Jacob Oshins	2011-01-25	$24,388,000
D630477	Condiment grinder	—	2011-01-11
7779275	Communication of information via an in-band channel using a trusted configuration space	John E. Paff, John F. Wiederhirn, Lonny Dean McMichael	2010-08-17	$13,094,000
7716638	Methods for describing processor features	—	2010-05-11	$12,269,000
7493429	Communication of information via a side-band channel, and use of same to verify positional relationship	John E. Paff, Marcus Peinado, Thekkthalackal Varugis Kurien, Bryan Willman, Paul England	2009-02-17	$27,209,000