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Frederick J. Smith — 44 Patents

Microsoft: 39 patents #537 of 40,388Top 2%
NSNational Semiconductor: 2 patents #867 of 2,238Top 40%
TNTalres Development (N.A.) N.V.: 2 patents #4 of 34Top 15%
Delphi Technologies: 1 patents #2,130 of 4,124Top 55%
Redmond, WA: #148 of 8,547 inventorsTop 2%
Washington: #1,423 of 76,902 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #66,838 of 4,157,543Top 2%
44 Patents All Time
Frederick J. Smith has been granted 44 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in February 2025. Frederick J. Smith ranks #66,838 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.6%). Patent records list Frederick J. Smith in Redmond, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 44 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12225050 Distribution and management of services in virtual environments Hari R. Pulapaka, Margarit Simeonov Chenchev, Benjamin M. Schultz, Jonathan D. Wiswall, John A. Starks +2 more 2025-02-11
12164948 Partially privileged lightweight virtualization environments Amber Tianqi Guo, John A. Starks, Lars Reuther, Deepu Chandy Thomas, Hari R. Pulapaka +2 more 2024-12-10 $225,255,000
11995449 Layered composite boot device and file system for operating system booting in file system virtualization environments Axel Rietschin, Margarit Simeonov Chenchev, Benjamin M. Schultz, Hari R. Pulapaka 2024-05-28 $429,016,000
11966771 Dynamic image composition for container deployment Jonathan De Marco, Benjamin M. Schultz, Hari R. Pulapaka, Mehmet Iyigun, Amber Tianqi Guo 2024-04-23 $338,628,000
11775475 Deferred path resolution during container deployment Amber Tianqi Guo, Benjamin M. Schultz, Axel Rietschin, Hari R. Pulapaka, Mehmet Iyigun +1 more 2023-10-03 $205,636,000
11762964 Using secure memory enclaves from the context of process containers Maxwell Christopher Renke, Taylor James Stark, Benjamin M. Schultz, Giridhar Viswanathan, Deepu Chandy Thomas +2 more 2023-09-19 $329,614,000
11556367 Dynamic image composition for container deployment Jonathan De Marco, Benjamin M. Schultz, Hari R. Pulapaka, Mehmet Iyigun, Amber Tianqi Guo 2023-01-17 $212,156,000
11363067 Distribution and management of services in virtual environments Hari R. Pulapaka, Margarit Simeonov Chenchev, Benjamin M. Schultz, Jonathan D. Wiswall, John A. Starks +2 more 2022-06-14 $195,068,000
11334364 Layered composite boot device and file system for operating system booting in file system virtualization environments Axel Rietschin, Margarit Simeonov Chenchev, Benjamin M. Schultz, Hari R. Pulapaka 2022-05-17 $208,968,000
11290488 Distribution and management of services in virtual environments Hari R. Pulapaka, Margarit Simeonov Chenchev, Benjamin M. Schultz, Jonathan D. Wiswall, John A. Starks +2 more 2022-03-29 $245,387,000
11256785 Using secure memory enclaves from the context of process containers Maxwell Christopher Renke, Taylor James Stark, Benjamin M. Schultz, Giridhar Viswanathan, Deepu Chandy Thomas +2 more 2022-02-22
11100243 Selective persistence of data utilized by software containers Margarit Simeonov Chenchev, Benjamin M. Schultz, Giridhar Viswanathan, Balaji Balasubramanyan, Yanan Zhang +2 more 2021-08-24 $155,614,000
11074323 Method and system for persisting files Benjamin M. Schultz, Balaji Balasubramanyan, Giridhar Viswanathan, Ankit Srivastava, Margarit Simeonov Chenchev +7 more 2021-07-27 $207,843,000
10922123 Container migration in computing systems Paul Bozzay, Benjamin M. Schultz, Margarit Simeonov Chenchev, Hari R. Pulapaka 2021-02-16 $170,991,000
10885193 Method and system for persisting untrusted files Bryan Born, Giridhar Viswanathan, Peteris Ledins, Balaji Balasubramanyan, Margarit Simeonov Chenchev +7 more 2021-01-05 $130,101,000
10885189 Isolated container event monitoring Charles G. Jeffries, Benjamin M. Schultz, Giridhar Viswanathan, David Guy WESTON, Ankit Srivastava +2 more 2021-01-05 $130,101,000
10855725 Hardware-based virtualized security isolation Navin Narayan Pai, Charles G. Jeffries, Giridhar Viswanathan, Benjamin M. Schultz, Lars Reuther +6 more 2020-12-01 $114,800,000
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
10592689 Selective container use for device usage sessions Kyle Thomas Brady, John C. Gordon, Benjamin M. Schultz, Ali Hajy, Morakinyo Korede Olugbade +3 more 2020-03-17 $74,735,000
10380081 Pre-building containers Kyle Thomas Brady, John C. Gordon, Benjamin M. Schultz, Ali Hajy, Morakinyo Korede Olugbade +3 more 2019-08-13 $69,160,000
10375111 Anonymous containers Benjamin M. Schultz, Daniel Vasquez Lopez, Abhinav Mishra, Ian James McCarty, John A. Starks +6 more 2019-08-06 $54,842,000
10333985 Distribution and management of services in virtual environments Hari R. Pulapaka, Margarit Simeonov Chenchev, Benjamin M. Schultz, Jonathan D. Wiswall, John A. Starks +2 more 2019-06-25 $55,928,000
9898354 Operating system layering Jeffrey M. Engel, Hari R. Pulapaka, Benjamin M. Schultz, Mehmet Iyigun, John Richardson +1 more 2018-02-20 $49,495,000
8713096 State control of remote hosts for management of distributed applications Yi-An Lin, Pavel A. Dournov, Anil Ingle 2014-04-29 $28,448,000
8539481 Using virtual hierarchies to build alternative namespaces Jeff L. Havens, Madhusudhan Talluri, Yousef A. Khalidi 2013-09-17 $24,820,000