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Gerald Cermak — 18 Patents

Microsoft: 18 patents #2,027 of 40,388Top 6%
Bothell, WA: #143 of 2,342 inventorsTop 7%
Washington: #5,373 of 76,902 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Gerald Cermak has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in February 2012. Gerald Cermak ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Gerald Cermak in Bothell, WA, US.

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Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8112452 Serverless distributed file system Atul Adya, John R. Douceur, Marvin M. Theimer, Roger P. Wattenhofer, William J. Bolosky 2012-02-07 $21,648,000
7792121 Frame protocol and scheduling system R. Donald Thompson, III, Davide Massarenti, Cosmin A. Corbea, Gideon A. Yuval 2010-09-07 $16,550,000
7774796 Methods of factoring operating system functions, methods of converting operating systems, and related apparatus Galen C. Hunt, Robert Stets 2010-08-10 $15,662,000
7739694 Methods of factoring operating system functions, methods of converting operating systems, and related apparatus Galen C. Hunt, Robert Stets 2010-06-15 $15,264,000
7738881 Systems for determining the approximate location of a device from ambient signals John C. Krumm, Eric J. Horvitz, Edward C. Miller, Adel Amin Youssef 2010-06-15 $15,264,000
7681207 Methods of factoring operating system functions, methods of converting operating systems, and related apparatus Galen C. Hunt, Robert Stets 2010-03-16 $17,803,000
7539867 On-disk file format for a serverless distributed file system William J. Bolosky, Atul Adya, John R. Douceur 2009-05-26 $27,170,000
7505970 Serverless distributed file system Atul Adya, William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur, Marvin M. Theimer, Roger P. Wattenhofer 2009-03-17 $13,616,000
7454612 On-disk file format for a serverless distributed file system William J. Bolosky, Atul Adya, John R. Douceur 2008-11-18 $21,361,000
7415608 On-disk file format for a serverless distributed file system William J. Bolosky, Atul Adya, John R. Douceur 2008-08-19 $63,421,000
7401220 On-disk file format for a serverless distributed file system William J. Bolosky, Atul Adya, John R. Douceur 2008-07-15 $55,633,000
7334235 Operating system application programming interfaces and methods of using operating systems Galen C. Hunt, Robert Stets 2008-02-19 $39,124,000
7319877 Methods for determining the approximate location of a device from ambient signals John C. Krumm, Eric J. Horvitz, Edward C. Miller, Adel Amin Youssef 2008-01-15 $94,702,000
7240060 Serverless distributed file system Atul Adya, William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur, Marvin M. Theimer, Roger P. Wattenhofer 2007-07-03 $23,375,000
7202816 Utilization of the approximate location of a device determined from ambient signals John C. Krumm, Eric J. Horvitz, Edward C. Miller, Adel Amin Youssef 2007-04-10 $36,355,000
7062490 Serverless distributed file system Atul Adya, William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur, Marvin M. Theimer, Roger P. Wattenhofer 2006-06-13 $42,500,000
7043637 On-disk file format for a serverless distributed file system William J. Bolosky, Atul Adya, John R. Douceur 2006-05-09 $41,729,000
6826760 Methods of factoring operating system functions, methods of converting operating systems, and related apparatus Galen C. Hunt, Robert Stets 2004-11-30 $50,767,000