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

Douglas Clayton — 4 Patents

Microsoft: 1 patents #24,968 of 40,388Top 65%
Durham, NC: #1,223 of 4,103 inventorsTop 30%
North Carolina: #12,022 of 45,564 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Douglas Clayton has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in July 2018. Douglas Clayton ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Douglas Clayton in Durham, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2018.peak 22006: 1 patents20062015: 1 patents20152018: 2 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10025626 Routing job submissions between disparate compute environments Andrew Kaczorek, Jason A. Stowe, Ben Watrous, David Watrous 2018-07-17
10025678 Method and system for automatically detecting and resolving infrastructure faults in cloud infrastructure Ian Alderman, Chris M. Chalfant, Ian Chesal, S. Robert Futrick, Daniel B. Harris +6 more 2018-07-17 $45,003,000
9146840 Method and system for automatically detecting and resolving infrastructure faults in cloud infrastructure Ian Alderman, Chris M. Chalfant, Ian Chesal, S. Robert Futrick, Daniel B. Harris +6 more 2015-09-29
7034825 Computerized image system Jason A. Stowe, Bryan Vandrovec 2006-04-25