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Josh Benaloh — 68 Patents

Microsoft: 66 patents #183 of 40,388Top 1%
Redmond, WA: #55 of 8,547 inventorsTop 1%
Washington: #614 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #30,786 of 4,157,543Top 1%
68 Patents All Time
Josh Benaloh has been granted 68 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in April 2021. Josh Benaloh ranks #30,786 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.74%). Patent records list Josh Benaloh in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 16 patents in 2009.peak 161998: 2 patents19981999: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002005: 3 patents2006: 9 patents20062007: 7 patents2008: 3 patents20082009: 16 patents2010: 5 patents20102011: 4 patents2012: 6 patents20122013: 2 patents2014: 3 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 68 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10977384 Hardware protection for differential privacy Harsha Prasad Nori, Janardhan Dattatreya KULKARNI, Joshua Stanley Allen, Jacob R. Lorch, Melissa E. Chase +4 more 2021-04-13 $203,090,000
10855665 Simple protocol for tangible security Yuqun Chen, Michael J. Sinclair 2020-12-01 $114,800,000
10165441 Simple protocol for tangible security Yuqun Chen, Michael J. Sinclair 2018-12-25
9503431 Simple protocol for tangible security Yuqun Chen, Michael J. Sinclair 2016-11-22 $43,983,000
9185109 Simple protocol for tangible security Yuqun Chen, Michael J. Sinclair 2015-11-10 $38,752,000
8984293 Secure software product identifier for product validation and activation Thomas J. Layson, Caglar Gunyakti, Tarik Soulami, Kalin Toshev, Jeffrey Paul Harker 2015-03-17 $21,315,000
8875258 Constraining a login to a subset of access rights John R. Michener, Niels T. Ferguson, Carl M. Ellison, Brian A. LaMacchia 2014-10-28 $24,713,000
8837718 User-specified sharing of data via policy and/or inference from a hierarchical cryptographic store Kristin E. Lauter, Mihir Bellare, Melissa E. Chase, Erik J. Horvitz, Chris Demetrios Karkanias 2014-09-16 $22,186,000
8775797 Reliable software product validation and activation with redundant security Thomas J. Layson, Caglar Gunyakti, Tarik Soulami, Kalin Toshev, Jeffrey Paul Harker 2014-07-08 $25,599,000
8621592 Authentication ticket validation Ismail Cem Paya 2013-12-31 $17,332,000
8381279 Constraining a login to a subset of access rights John R. Michener, Niels T. Ferguson, Carl M. Ellison, Brian A. LaMacchia 2013-02-19 $10,297,000
8325924 Managing group keys Tolga Acar, Niels T. Ferguson, Carl M. Ellison, Mira Belenkiy, Duy Lan Nguyen 2012-12-04 $15,162,000
8239927 Authentication ticket validation Ismail Cem Paya 2012-08-07 $11,434,000
8230231 One time password key ring for mobile computing device Trevor W. Freeman, K John Biccum, Atul Kumar Shah 2012-07-24 $20,829,000
8224754 Generation, distribution and verification of tokens using a secure hash algorithm Andrzej Pastusiak, Arun Sacheti, Ting Cai, Deuane J. Martin, Rajesh Kuppuswamy 2012-07-17 $17,052,000
8140855 Security-enhanced log in Bin Zhu, Min Feng, Aimin Pan, Yuan Kong, Nathan C. Sherman +2 more 2012-03-20 $19,292,000
8090954 Prevention of unauthorized forwarding and authentication of signatures Cem Paya 2012-01-03 $18,593,000
7937586 Defending against denial of service attacks Douglas Robert de la Torre, Aidan T. Hughes 2011-05-03 $28,388,000
7929689 Call signs Christian Huitema, Kim Cameron 2011-04-19 $17,129,000
7904517 Challenge response systems Nina Kang, Joshua T. Goodman, Robert L. Rounthwaite, Elissa E. S. Murphy, Manav Mishra +3 more 2011-03-08 $17,985,000
7890643 System and method for providing program credentials Dean Justus, Nathan Fink, Michael W. Howard, Daniel R. Simon, Matthew W. Thomlinson 2011-02-15 $14,147,000
7822200 Method and system for asymmetric key security Kim Cameron, Arun K. Nanda, John P. Shewchuk, Daniel R. Simon, Andrew Bortz 2010-10-26 $19,005,000
7788484 Using hierarchical identity based cryptography for authenticating outbound mail Cem Paya 2010-08-31 $11,672,000
7770023 Exclusive encryption John R. Douceur, Atul Adya, Gideon A. Yuval 2010-08-03 $11,892,000
7685415 Exclusive encryption John R. Douceur, Gideon A. Yuval, Atul Adya 2010-03-23 $19,870,000