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Dwayne Need — 16 Patents

Microsoft: 16 patents #2,398 of 40,388Top 6%
Woodinville, WA: #191 of 1,504 inventorsTop 15%
Washington: #6,223 of 76,902 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Dwayne Need has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in December 2019. Dwayne Need ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Dwayne Need in Woodinville, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10523717 Multi cloud policy enactment via organizations to cloud-provider partnerships Ranganathan Srikanth, David James Armour, Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Jeremy Winter, John David Ballard +1 more 2019-12-31 $77,918,000
10298621 Multi cloud policy enactment via organizations to cloud-provider partnerships Ranganathan Srikanth, David James Armour, Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Jeremy Winter, John David Ballard +1 more 2019-05-21 $71,387,000
10048993 Input management system and method 2018-08-14 $70,220,000
9961114 Multi cloud policy enactment via organizations to cloud-provider partnerships Ranganathan Srikanth, David James Armour, Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Jeremy Winter, John David Ballard +1 more 2018-05-01 $53,440,000
9596267 Multi cloud policy enactment via organizations to cloud-provider partnerships Ranganathan Srikanth, David James Armour, Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Jeremy Winter, John David Ballard +1 more 2017-03-14 $33,293,000
8813094 Input management system and method 2014-08-19 $30,011,000
8584102 Creating and using deltas to modify existing computer code Varsha Mahadevan, Brandon C. Furtwangler, Tsvetomir V. Valtchev, Benjamin F. Carter, Cedric P. Dussud +1 more 2013-11-12 $25,186,000
7823157 Dynamic queue for use in threaded computing environment Michael J. Hillberg, Nicholas M. Kramer 2010-10-26 $19,005,000
7607086 System and method for pre-processing input events Benjamin M. Westbrook 2009-10-20 $35,334,000
7562305 Dynamically-generated commanding interface Gregory Cavanaugh Franklin, Kevin B. Gjerstad, Nicholas M. Kramer, Yutaka Nakajima 2009-07-14 $33,585,000
7433979 Method and apparatus for input management having plurality of input provider types with third party listener access to staging area that includes stack of input events 2008-10-07 $26,037,000
7386856 Extension of commanding to control level Gregory Cavanaugh Franklin, Kevin B. Gjerstad, Nicholas M. Kramer, Yutaka Nakajima 2008-06-10 $47,010,000
7284205 Providing multiple input bindings across device categories Gregory Cavanaugh Franklin, Kevin B. Gjerstad, Nicholas M. Kramer, Yutaka Nakajima 2007-10-16 $16,447,000
7143213 Attaching services to commanding elements matching command binding if the matching binding is found in either the table of bindings or servicing bindings Gregory Cavanaugh Franklin, Nicholas M. Kramer, Yutaka Nakajima 2006-11-28 $34,612,000
7093034 Method and apparatus for input management having a plurality of input provider types wherein staging area holds and allows access by external components 2006-08-15 $34,347,000
5991804 Continuous media file server for cold restriping following capacity change by repositioning data blocks in the multiple data servers William J. Bolosky, Siddhartha Debgupta 1999-11-23 $266,988,000