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Hugh WILLIAMS — 10 Patents

Microsoft: 9 patents #4,919 of 40,388Top 15%
Williamsburg, VA: #40 of 341 inventorsTop 15%
Virginia: #3,070 of 34,511 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Hugh WILLIAMS has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in December 2024. Hugh WILLIAMS ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Hugh WILLIAMS in Williamsburg, VA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2020.peak 41999: 1 patents19992020: 4 patents20202022: 2 patents20222024: 3 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12165682 Phase-modulated optical data storage Thomas Torsten Dr Winkler, Rokas Drevinskas, Ariel GOMEZ DIAZ, Charles Ernest WHITTAKER, Timothy John Deegan +10 more 2024-12-10 $225,255,000
12063273 Server system Antony Rowstron, Richard John Black, Austin Donnelly, Serguei Anatolievitch Legtchenko, Aaron W. Ogus +1 more 2024-08-13 $383,964,000
12056568 Glass media unique identification and tracking system Jason David Adrian, Richard John Black, Austin Donnelly, David Lara Saucedo, Serguei Anatolievitch Legtchenko 2024-08-06 $310,621,000
11443129 Glass media unique identification and tracking system Jason David Adrian, Richard John Black, Austin Donnelly, David Lara Saucedo, Serguei Anatolievitch Legtchenko 2022-09-13 $207,053,000
11232006 Server system Serguei Anatolievitch Legtchenko, Mark Shaw, Austin Donnelly, Richard John Black, Antony Rowstron +2 more 2022-01-25 $273,369,000
10809926 Server system Serguei Anatolievitch Legtchenko, Mark Shaw, Austin Donnelly, Richard John Black, Antony Rowstron +2 more 2020-10-20 $184,619,000
10768825 Disaggregated data storage and retrieval system Antony Rowstron, Ioan Alexandru Stefanovici, Aaron W. Ogus, Douglas Phillips, Richard John Black +15 more 2020-09-08 $110,161,000
10719239 Disaggregated data storage and retrieval system Antony Rowstron, Ioan Alexandru Stefanovici, Aaron W. Ogus, Douglas Phillips, Richard John Black +15 more 2020-07-21 $123,214,000
10672428 High-density optical data recording Richard John Black, Patrick Neil Anderson, Rokas Drevinskas, Austin Donnelly 2020-06-02 $84,040,000
5876242 Remote battery extension apparatus 1999-03-02