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Brian D. Zill — 21 Patents

Microsoft: 21 patents #1,596 of 40,388Top 4%
Redmond, WA: #546 of 8,547 inventorsTop 7%
Washington: #4,391 of 76,902 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Brian D. Zill has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in March 2025. Brian D. Zill ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Brian D. Zill in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2011.peak 42006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 3 patents2011: 4 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212023: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12250136 Link fault isolation using latencies Shachar Raindel, Jitendra D. Padhye, Avi William Levy, Mahmoud S. El Haddad, Alireza Khosgoftar Monafared +2 more 2025-03-11
11671342 Link fault isolation using latencies Shachar Raindel, Jitendra D. Padhye, Avi William Levy, Mahmoud S. El Haddad, Alireza Khosgoftar Monafared +2 more 2023-06-06 $290,714,000
11050652 Link fault isolation using latencies Shachar Raindel, Jitendra D. Padhye, Avi William Levy, Mahmoud S. El Haddad, Alireza Khosgoftar Monafared +2 more 2021-06-29 $257,930,000
10148442 End-to-end security for hardware running verified software Chris Hawblitzel, Jacob R. Lorch, Jonathan R. Howell, Bryan Jeffrey Parno 2018-12-04 $68,963,000
9536093 Automated verification of a software system Chris Hawblitzel, Bryan Jeffrey Parno, Jacob R. Lorch, Jonathan R. Howell 2017-01-03 $30,922,000
9363087 End-to-end security for hardware running verified software Chris Hawblitzel, Bryan Jeffrey Parno, Jacob R. Lorch, Jonathan R. Howell 2016-06-07 $39,883,000
8966063 Operating a sleep management service Jacob R. Lorch, Jitendra D. Padhye, Wenbiao Xing, Wei-Lun Wan, Li-Hui Chen 2015-02-24 $23,623,000
8800002 Inter-process networking for many-core operating systems David G. Thaler, Parveen Patel, Rebecca Isaacs, Yongguang Zhang 2014-08-05 $23,036,000
8473744 Methods and systems for unilateral authentication of messages Art Shelest, David G. Thaler, Gregory O'Shea, Michael Roe 2013-06-25 $15,479,000
8155662 Self-configuring wireless network location system Alastair Wolman, Jitendra D. Padhye, Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra 2012-04-10 $17,388,000
8032898 Kernel interface with categorized kernel objects Galen C. Hunt, James R. Larus, Manuel A. Fahndrich, Bjarne Steensgaard, David Tarditi 2011-10-04 $15,454,000
8000698 Detection and management of rogue wireless network connections Alastair Wolman, Jitendra D. Padhye, Ranveer Chandra, Paramvir Bahl, Manpreet Singh +1 more 2011-08-16 $15,401,000
7978672 System and method for link quality source routing Richard P. Draves, Jr., Jitendra D. Padhye 2011-07-12 $14,655,000
7907562 Managing dense wireless access point infrastructures in wireless local area networks Rohan Narayan Murty, Ranveer Chandra, Jitendra D. Padhye, Alastair Wolman 2011-03-15 $22,634,000
7756044 Inverse multiplexing heterogeneous wireless links for high-performance vehicular connectivity Jitendra D. Padhye, Ratul Mahajan, Sharad Agarwal 2010-07-13 $16,921,000
7680091 System and method for link quality source routing Richard P. Draves, Jr., Jitendra D. Padhye 2010-03-16 $17,803,000
7668513 Platform for enterprise wireless network management applications Alastair Wolman, Jitendra D. Padhye, Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra 2010-02-23 $27,908,000
7616575 System and method for link quality routing using a weighted cumulative expected transmission time metric Jitendra D. Padhye, Richard P. Draves, Jr. 2009-11-10 $34,464,000
7516049 Wireless performance analysis system Alastair Wolman, Jitendra D. Padhye, Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra 2009-04-07 $26,157,000
7376122 System and method for link quality source routing Richard P. Draves, Jr., Jitendra D. Padhye 2008-05-20 $37,918,000
7134019 Methods and systems for unilateral authentication of messages Art Shelest, David G. Thaler, Gregory O'Shea, Michael Roe 2006-11-07 $41,408,000