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Christopher Leonard Walstad — 8 Patents

Microsoft: 7 patents #6,431 of 40,388Top 20%
Seattle, WA: #3,798 of 21,776 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #13,119 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Christopher Leonard Walstad has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in October 2025. Christopher Leonard Walstad ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Christopher Leonard Walstad in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2016 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2020.peak 22016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents20192020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12443699 Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices Yogesh A. Mehta, Octavian T. Ureche, Scott R. Shell, Innokentiy Basmov, Peter Novotney 2025-10-14
11295004 Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices Yogesh A. Mehta, Octavian T. Ureche, Scott R. Shell, Innokentiy Basmov, Peter Novotney 2022-04-05 $223,258,000
11153327 Data classification and access control for cloud based data Vishal Agarwal, Narendra S. Acharya, Octavian T. Ureche, Preston Derek Adam 2021-10-19
10713350 Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices Yogesh A. Mehta, Octavian T. Ureche, Scott R. Shell, Innokentiy Basmov, Peter Novotney 2020-07-14 $94,985,000
10574459 Code signing service Prabu Raju, Fengfen Liu, Levi P. Broderick, Himanshu Soni, Reed Molbak +1 more 2020-02-25 $60,478,000
10404716 Data classification and access control for cloud based data Vishal Agarwal, Narendra S. Acharya, Octavian T. Ureche, Preston Derek Adam 2019-09-03 $68,397,000
10078748 Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices Yogesh A. Mehta, Octavian T. Ureche, Scott R. Shell, Innokentiy Basmov, Peter Novotney 2018-09-18 $107,363,000
9531703 Single sign-on via application or browser Jonathan Schwartz, Karanbir Singh, Sainath Narendranath Thadkal, Aleksandr Radutskiy, Yifan Wang +2 more 2016-12-27 $44,288,000