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Austin Donnelly — 27 Patents

Microsoft: 27 patents #1,056 of 40,388Top 3%
Cambridge, GB: #112 of 4,587 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Austin Donnelly has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in April 2025. Austin Donnelly ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Austin Donnelly in Cambridge, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2013.peak 42009: 3 patents20092011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 4 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182020: 4 patents2022: 2 patents20222023: 1 patents2024: 4 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12266391 Method and system for writing voxels to a transparent substrate Masaaki SAKAKURA, Timothy John Deegan, Rokas Drevinskas, Thomas Torsten Dr Winkler, Daniel Jonathan Finchley Cletheroe +3 more 2025-04-01
12183378 Method and system for forming birefringent voxels Masaaki SAKAKURA, Rokas Drevinskas, Daniel Jonathan Finchley Cletheroe, Richard John Black, Timothy John Deegan +9 more 2024-12-31 $238,956,000
12165682 Phase-modulated optical data storage Thomas Torsten Dr Winkler, Rokas Drevinskas, Ariel GOMEZ DIAZ, Charles Ernest WHITTAKER, Timothy John Deegan +10 more 2024-12-10 $225,255,000
12063273 Server system Hugh WILLIAMS, Antony Rowstron, Richard John Black, Serguei Anatolievitch Legtchenko, Aaron W. Ogus +1 more 2024-08-13 $383,964,000
12056568 Glass media unique identification and tracking system Jason David Adrian, Richard John Black, David Lara Saucedo, Serguei Anatolievitch Legtchenko, Hugh WILLIAMS 2024-08-06 $310,621,000
11831333 Encoding for data recovery in storage systems Christos Gkantsidis, Antony Rowstron, Andromachi CHATZIELEFTHERIOU, Richard John Black, Istvan Haller 2023-11-28 $298,085,000
11443129 Glass media unique identification and tracking system Jason David Adrian, Richard John Black, David Lara Saucedo, Serguei Anatolievitch Legtchenko, Hugh WILLIAMS 2022-09-13 $207,053,000
11232006 Server system Serguei Anatolievitch Legtchenko, Mark Shaw, Hugh WILLIAMS, Richard John Black, Antony Rowstron +2 more 2022-01-25 $273,369,000
10809926 Server system Serguei Anatolievitch Legtchenko, Mark Shaw, Hugh WILLIAMS, Richard John Black, Antony Rowstron +2 more 2020-10-20 $184,619,000
10768825 Disaggregated data storage and retrieval system Antony Rowstron, Ioan Alexandru Stefanovici, Aaron W. Ogus, Douglas Phillips, Richard John Black +15 more 2020-09-08 $110,161,000
10719239 Disaggregated data storage and retrieval system Antony Rowstron, Ioan Alexandru Stefanovici, Aaron W. Ogus, Douglas Phillips, Richard John Black +15 more 2020-07-21 $123,214,000
10672428 High-density optical data recording Richard John Black, Patrick Neil Anderson, Rokas Drevinskas, Hugh WILLIAMS 2020-06-02 $84,040,000
9906433 API supporting server and key based networking Gregory O'Shea, Antony Rowstron, Paolo Costa 2018-02-27 $69,890,000
9841774 Low cost storage for rarely read data Shobana Balakrishnan, David T. Harper, Stephen F. Heil, Eric C. Peterson, Adam B. Glass +3 more 2017-12-12 $71,573,000
9471068 Low cost storage for rarely read data Shobana Balakrishnan, David T. Harper, Stephen F. Heil, Eric C. Peterson, Adam B. Glass +3 more 2016-10-18 $67,958,000
9015345 API supporting server and key based networking Gregory O'Shea, Antony Rowstron, Paolo Costa 2015-04-21 $29,497,000
8868954 Low cost storage for rarely read data Shobana M. Balakrsihnan, David T. Harper, Stephen F. Heil, Eric C. Peterson, Adam B. Glass +3 more 2014-10-21 $25,843,000
8724512 System and method for network topology discovery Richard John Black, Cedric Fournet 2014-05-13 $35,108,000
8499222 Supporting distributed key-based processes Antony Rowstron, Paolo Costa, Gregory O'Shea 2013-07-30 $35,826,000
8375141 Infrastructure to disseminate queries and provide query results Antony Rowstron, Richard Mortier, Dushyanth Narayanan 2013-02-12 $17,029,000
8370672 Reducing power consumption of distributed storage systems Eno Thereska, Dushyanth Naraynanan 2013-02-05 $10,554,000
8352797 Software fault isolation using byte-granularity memory protection Richard John Black, Paul Barham, Manuel Costa, Marcus Peinado, Jean-Philippe Martin +2 more 2013-01-08 $13,559,000
8307071 Fine-grained location determination of networked computers Bernard Aboba, Roy D. Kuntz, Gabriel E. Montenegro, Noor-E-Gagan Singh, Tim Moore 2012-11-06 $20,259,000
8074014 Storage systems using write off-loading Dushyanth Narayanan, Antony Rowstron, Sameh Elnikety, Eno Thereska 2011-12-06 $11,336,000
7617538 Configuration information protection using cost based analysis Dinan Gunawardena, Alf Zugenmaier, Jacob Scott 2009-11-10 $34,464,000