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David B. Probert — 18 Patents

Microsoft: 18 patents #2,027 of 40,388Top 6%
Woodinville, WA: #161 of 1,504 inventorsTop 15%
Washington: #5,373 of 76,902 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
David B. Probert has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in May 2020. David B. Probert ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list David B. Probert in Woodinville, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10650157 Securing virtual execution environments Benjamin M. Schultz, Kinshumann, David J. Linsley, Charles G. Jeffries, Giridhar Viswanathan +5 more 2020-05-12 $80,014,000
10628238 Decoupling background work and foreground work James A. Schwartz, Jr., Arun U. Kishan, Richard K. Neves, Hari R. Pulapaka, Alain Gefflaut 2020-04-21 $75,244,000
9798595 Transparent user mode scheduling on traditional threading systems Ajith Jayamohan, Arun U. Kishan, Pedro Teixeira 2017-10-24 $48,823,000
9628279 Protecting application secrets from operating system attacks Jeff Engel, Arsalan Ahmad, Arun U. Kishan, Jonathan E. Lange 2017-04-18 $38,106,000
9361150 Resuming applications and/or exempting applications from suspension Benjamin Salim Srour, Michael H. Krause, Richard K. Neves, Arun U. Kishan, Hari R. Pulapaka +1 more 2016-06-07 $39,883,000
9361136 Decoupling background work and foreground work James A. Schwartz, Jr., Arun U. Kishan, Richard K. Neves, Hari R. Pulapaka, Alain Gefflaut 2016-06-07 $39,883,000
9063775 Event aggregation for background work execution James A. Schwartz, Jr., Arun U. Kishan, Richard K. Neves, Hari R. Pulapaka, Alain Gefflaut 2015-06-23 $32,988,000
9032413 Decoupling background work and foreground work James A. Schwartz, Jr., Arun U. Kishan, Richard K. Neves, Hari R. Pulapaka, Alain Gefflaut 2015-05-12 $40,939,000
8578394 Exempting applications from suspension Benjamin Salim Srour, Michael H. Krause, Richard K. Neves, Arun U. Kishan, Hari R. Pulapaka +1 more 2013-11-05 $39,616,000
8312463 Resource management in computing scenarios Burton Smith, Abhishek Singh, Douglas C. Burger, David Wecker 2012-11-13 $20,195,000
8091088 Method and system for hierarchical resource management involving hard and soft resource limits Arun U. Kishan 2012-01-03 $18,593,000
7784044 Patching of in-use functions on a running computer system Garret J. Buban, Paul Donlan, Adrian Marinescu, Thomas McGuire, Hoi Vo +1 more 2010-08-24 $15,140,000
7756841 System and method for identity decisions and invalidation Eric Li, Genevieve Fernandes, John Rector 2010-07-13 $16,921,000
7747594 Converting information into different formats Chao Liu 2010-06-29 $14,156,000
7127582 System and method for kernel mode memory management having moveable kernel objects Adrian Marinescu 2006-10-24 $47,982,000
6963960 System and method for kernel mode memory management having movable kernel objects Adrian Marinescu 2005-11-08 $65,401,000
6745176 Dynamic information format conversion Chao Liu 2004-06-01 $80,134,000
6549918 Dynamic information format conversion Chao Liu 2003-04-15 $167,020,000