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Chengyun Chu — 9 Patents

Microsoft: 8 patents #5,580 of 40,388Top 15%
Redmond, WA: #1,504 of 8,547 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #11,701 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Chengyun Chu has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in November 2024. Chengyun Chu ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Chengyun Chu in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2012.peak 22007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102012: 2 patents20122014: 1 patents20142018: 1 patents20182021: 1 patents20212024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12143473 Security assurance for cyber supply chains 2024-11-12
10891378 Automated malware signature generation Ning Sun, Patrick Winkler, Hong Wei Jia, Jason Geffner, Tony Lee +2 more 2021-01-12 $215,405,000
9996693 Automated malware signature generation Ning Sun, Patrick Winkler, Hong Wei Jia, Jason Geffner, Tony Lee +2 more 2018-06-12 $80,392,000
8667583 Collecting and analyzing malware data Alexey Polyakov, Marc E. Seinfeld, Jigar J. Mody, Ning Sun, Tony Lee 2014-03-04 $30,366,000
8201244 Automated malware signature generation Ning Sun, Patrick Winkler, Hong Wei Jia, Jason Geffner, Tony Lee +2 more 2012-06-12 $20,322,000
8095985 Protected media path and refusal response enabler Geoffrey Dunbar, James M. Alkove 2012-01-10 $16,234,000
7802299 Binary function database system Jason Geffner, Ning Sun, Brad Albrecht, Tony Lee, Pat Winkler 2010-09-21 $12,612,000
7500267 Systems and methods for disabling software components to protect digital media Jeffrey R. McKune, James M. Alkove, Sumedh N. Barde, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch 2009-03-03 $17,333,000
7296296 Protected media path and refusal response enabler Geoffrey Dunbar, James M. Alkove 2007-11-13 $32,869,000