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Joel Downer — 5 Patents

Microsoft: 5 patents #8,859 of 40,388Top 25%
Redmond, WA: #2,509 of 8,547 inventorsTop 30%
Washington: #19,692 of 76,902 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Joel Downer has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in May 2010. Joel Downer ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Joel Downer in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2001.peak 12001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents20022007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7716461 Capturing and restoring application state after unexpected application shutdown Shaheeda Parveen Nizar, Chaitanya Dev Sareen, Jixin Wu 2010-05-11 $12,269,000
7574591 Capturing and restoring application state after unexpected application shutdown Shaheeda Parveen Nizar, Chaitanya Dev Sareen, Jixin Wu 2009-08-11 $34,426,000
7257712 Runtime digital signatures Aidan T. Hughes, Raymond Fowkes 2007-08-14 $20,227,000
6408326 Method and system for applying a policy to binary data Jeffrey E. Larsson, Kirk A. Glerum 2002-06-18 $289,240,000
6327705 Method for creating and maintaining user data Jeffrey E. Larsson 2001-12-04 $246,102,000