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David A. Nichols — 40 Patents

Microsoft: 26 patents #1,112 of 40,388Top 3%
Xerox: 5 patents #2,266 of 8,622Top 30%
UNUnknown: 3 patents #7,366 of 83,584Top 9%
Honda Motor Co.: 1 patents #12,035 of 21,052Top 60%
PLPlaceware: 1 patents #4 of 5Top 80%
Redmond, WA: #181 of 8,547 inventorsTop 3%
Washington: #1,647 of 76,902 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
David A. Nichols has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in November 2025. David A. Nichols ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list David A. Nichols in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1988 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2012.peak 61988: 1 patents19881992: 1 patents1993: 1 patents19931996: 1 patents1997: 2 patents19972002: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2009: 4 patents20092010: 4 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 6 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 3 patents2017: 2 patents20172019: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12459965 Preparation of psilocybin, different polymorphic forms, intermediates, formulations and their use Derek John Londesbrough, Christopher Brown, Julian Scott Northen, Gillian Moore, Hemant Kashinath Patil 2025-11-04
12447164 Method for treating anxiety disorders, headache disorders, and eating disorders with psilocybin Derek John Londesbrough, Christopher Brown, Julian Scott Northen, Gillian Moore, Hemant Kashinath Patil +5 more 2025-10-21
12433904 Methods for treating anxiety disorders, headache disorders, and eating disorders with psilocybin Derek John Londesbrough, Christopher Brown, Julian Scott Northen, Gillian Moore, Hemant Kashinath Patil +5 more 2025-10-07
11293751 Profile inspection system for verifying relative position of vehicle component objects and manufacturing cell including same Donovan JOHNSON, Jason D. Hendon, Jasmeen Luckey 2022-04-05 $112,000
10642593 Logical migration of applications and data Samuel James McKelvie, Navjot Virk, Mathew James Dickson 2020-05-05 $112,664,000
10209975 Logical migration of applications and data Samuel James McKelvie, Navjot Virk, Mathew James Dickson 2019-02-19 $69,212,000
9645947 Bundling file permissions for sharing files Mary Angelo, Brad Dodson, Emmanuel Miranda-Steiner, Daron Spektor 2017-05-09 $28,083,000
9536005 Social distance based search result order adjustment David R. Quick, Mohamed Battisha, Alexander E. Mallet, Michael Patrick Mroch, Nikolay Smolyanskiy +1 more 2017-01-03 $30,922,000
9449016 Data synchronization policies Gyorgy K. Schadt, John Brezak, Oded Yehuda Shekel, Albert Hwang, Patrick Jakubowski +1 more 2016-09-20 $35,738,000
9420051 Rating based on relationship Oludare Obasanjo, Bhupinder S. Sethi 2016-08-16 $41,736,000
9305018 Contextual and semantic differential backup Mathew James Dickson, Samuel James McKelvie, John D. Mehr, Kristin E. Lauter, Elissa E. S. Murphy 2016-04-05 $42,162,000
9104737 Social distance based search result order adjustment David R. Quick, Mohamed Battisha, Alexander E. Mallet, Michael Patrick Mroch, Nikolay Smolyanskiy +1 more 2015-08-11 $31,793,000
8918779 Logical migration of applications and data Navjot Virk, Samuel James McKelvie, Mathew James Dickson 2014-12-23 $35,011,000
8817668 Distributable, scalable, pluggable conferencing architecture Dhigha D. Sekaran, Shaun D. Pierce, Shaun D. Cox, Srikanth Shoroff, Pavel Curtis +5 more 2014-08-26 $21,459,000
8443001 Stashing of locally persisted data to network accessible storage Catherine Claire Marshall, John D. Mehr, Elissa E. S. Murphy 2013-05-14 $29,028,000
8341145 Face recognition using social data Bradley Dodson, Chung Webster, Joel Scaria 2012-12-25
8296356 Rating based on relationship Oludare Obasanjo, Bhupinder S. Sethi 2012-10-23 $17,154,000
8244764 Stashing of locally persisted data to network accessible storage Catherine Claire Marshall, John D. Mehr, Elissa E. S. Murphy 2012-08-14 $12,366,000
8219654 Highly available central controller to store and enforce valid state transitions of distributed components Girish Nagaraja, Supin Ko, Vishal Mishra 2012-07-10 $20,283,000
8214883 Using social networks while respecting access control lists Oludare Obasanjo, Bhupinder S. Sethi, Paul Richard Chen Ming 2012-07-03 $17,614,000
8140914 Failure-model-driven repair and backup Elissa E. S. Murphy, John D. Mehr 2012-03-20 $19,292,000
7991916 Per-user application rendering in the presence of application sharing Brian Meek 2011-08-02 $22,196,000
7934661 Marketing/fundraising/reward system and method 2011-05-03
7822738 Collaborative workspace context information filtering Hans Christian Andersen, Brian Meek 2010-10-26 $19,005,000
7792788 Method and system for resolving conflicts operations in a collaborative editing environment Keith D. Melmon 2010-09-07 $16,550,000