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Dean A. Wells — 6 Patents

Microsoft: 5 patents #8,859 of 40,388Top 25%
Snohomish, WA: #170 of 719 inventorsTop 25%
Washington: #16,995 of 76,902 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Dean A. Wells has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in September 2020. Dean A. Wells ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Dean A. Wells in Snohomish, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1988 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2019.peak 21988: 1 patents19882014: 1 patents20142016: 1 patents20162019: 2 patents20192020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10771439 Shielded networks for virtual machines Alan Thomas Gavin JOWETT, Ravi T. Rao, Gregory M. Cusanza, Nir Ben-Zvi 2020-09-08 $110,161,000
10423791 Enabling offline restart of shielded virtual machines using key caching Nir Ben-Zvi, Ryan P. Puffer 2019-09-24 $78,899,000
10176335 Identity services for organizations transparently hosted in the cloud Ross Peter Adams, Clifford Didcock, Girish Chander 2019-01-08 $55,256,000
9244707 Transforming user interface actions to script commands Elisa W. Zhang, Ikrima Elhassan, Satheesh S. Dabbiru, Ryan A. Sizemore, Vladimir Yarmolenko +2 more 2016-01-26 $35,526,000
8726277 Domain controller safety-features and cloning Gregoire Guetat, Gregory C. Johnson, Uday Hegde, Richard D. Hill 2014-05-13 $35,108,000
4737074 Wear resistant hub for wind machines 1988-04-12