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Gary D. Kimura — 8 Patents

Microsoft: 8 patents #5,580 of 40,388Top 15%
Kirkland, WA: #733 of 3,517 inventorsTop 25%
Washington: #13,119 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Gary D. Kimura has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in February 2002. Gary D. Kimura ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Gary D. Kimura in Kirkland, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6349313 Identifying the owner responsible for processing I/O requests Oshoma Momoh, Luis Felipe Cabrera 2002-02-19 $242,840,000
6249866 Encrypting file system and method Peter T. Brundrett, Praerit Garg, Jianrong Gu, James W. Kelly, Jr., Keith S. Kaplan +3 more 2001-06-19 $552,481,000
6189016 Journaling ordered changes in a storage volume Luis Felipe Cabrera, Thomas J. Miller, Brian D. Andrew, Mark J. Zbikowski 2001-02-13 $304,379,000
6125373 Identifying a driver that is an owner of an active mount point Oshoma Momoh, Luis Felipe Cabrera 2000-09-26 $1,016,243,000
5978815 File system primitive providing native file system support for remote storage Luis Felipe Cabrera, Thomas J. Miller, Brian D. Andrew 1999-11-02 $272,219,000
5931935 File system primitive allowing reprocessing of I/O requests by multiple drivers in a layered driver I/O system Luis Felipe Cabrera 1999-08-03 $326,488,000
5933104 Method and system for compression and decompression using variable-sized offset and length fields 1999-08-03 $326,488,000
5745902 Method and system for accessing a file using file names having different file name formats Thomas J. Miller 1998-04-28 $113,316,000