Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
DM

Derek Menzies — 8 Patents

Microsoft: 8 patents #5,580 of 40,388Top 15%
Sammamish, WA: #641 of 2,558 inventorsTop 30%
Washington: #13,119 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Derek Menzies has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in June 2020. Derek Menzies ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Derek Menzies in Sammamish, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2009.peak 42009: 4 patents20092012: 2 patents20122015: 1 patents20152020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10687306 Intelligent throttling and notifications management for monitoring and incident management systems Vidyasankar Raman, Congjie Mi, Duke Kamstra, Shripad Kulkarni 2020-06-16 $163,781,000
8954370 Policy processor for configuration management Eric Voskuil, Leonard Charest, Rahul Gupta, Phillip Mienk, Jeremiah S. Nay +1 more 2015-02-10 $22,754,000
8112379 Policy processor for configuration management Eric Voskuil, Leonard Charest, Rahul Gupta, Phillip Mienk, Jeremiah S. Nay +1 more 2012-02-07 $21,648,000
8104080 Universal schema for representing management policy Steven P. Burns, Andrea Rose Westerinen, Anders Vinberg 2012-01-24 $16,228,000
7590981 Update package for offline synchronization of software updates Rahul Gupta, Ullattil Shaji 2009-09-15 $22,769,000
7546594 System and method for updating installation components using an installation component delta patch in a networked environment Thomas McGuire, Michael Sliger, Derek Chirk Yin Cheng, Mazhar Mohammed, Manojkumar Haridas Shende 2009-06-09 $30,586,000
7539686 Tag-based schema for distributing update metadata in an update distribution system Marc Shepard, David Dehghan, Aaron Averbuch, Jeanette R. Fisher, Dennis Marl +1 more 2009-05-26 $27,170,000
7509636 System and method for updating files utilizing delta compression patching Thomas McGuire, Michael Sliger, Derek Chirk Yin Cheng, Mazhar Mohammed, Peter Alexander Williams +1 more 2009-03-24 $26,092,000