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James Duffus — 8 Patents

Microsoft: 7 patents #6,431 of 40,388Top 20%
Seattle, WA: #3,798 of 21,776 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #13,119 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
James Duffus has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in March 2015. James Duffus ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list James Duffus in Seattle, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8984653 Client controlled lock for electronic devices Mark St. John, Martin Holladay, Todd L. Carpenter, Ricardo Lopez-Barquilla 2015-03-17 $21,315,000
8522043 Hardware-based computer theft deterrence Curt A. Steeb, Thomas G. Phillips, Jeffrey Alan Herold, William Poole, William J. Westerinen +1 more 2013-08-27 $28,689,000
8176564 Special PC mode entered upon detection of undesired state Alexander Frank, Curt A. Steeb, Isaac P. Ahdout, Martin H. Hall, Nicholas Temple +3 more 2012-05-08 $25,243,000
8099324 Securely providing advertising subsidized computer usage William J. Westerinen, Hanumant Kumar Yadav, Todd L. Carpenter 2012-01-17 $17,044,000
8073442 Binding a device to a provider Alexander Frank, Bohdan Raciborski, Jeffrey Alan Herold, Martin H. Hall, Paul C. Sutton +1 more 2011-12-06 $11,336,000
7669056 Method and apparatus for measuring presentation data exposure Alexander Frank 2010-02-23 $27,908,000
7610631 Method and apparatus for provisioning software Alexander Frank, Curt A. Steeb, Mark Light, Martin Holladay, Paul C. Sutton +3 more 2009-10-27
7603716 Distributed network security service Alexander Frank, Thomas G. Phillips 2009-10-13 $26,140,000