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Keith W. Short — 10 Patents

Microsoft: 8 patents #5,580 of 40,388Top 15%
SSSterling Software: 1 patents #7 of 28Top 25%
TITexas Instruments: 1 patents #7,388 of 12,488Top 60%
Redmond, WA: #1,344 of 8,547 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #10,505 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Keith W. Short has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in January 2018. Keith W. Short ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Keith W. Short in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2012.peak 31996: 1 patents19961998: 1 patents19982006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents20082012: 3 patents20122013: 1 patents20132018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9864796 Databases from models William E. Gibson 2018-01-09 $35,614,000
8392464 Easily queriable software repositories Anthony Christopher Bloesch, Dennis W. Minium 2013-03-05 $13,509,000
8307297 Modeling configurations of systems William E. Gibson, Andrea Rose Westerinen 2012-11-06 $20,259,000
8171057 Modeling party identities in computer storage systems Kim Cameron 2012-05-01 $24,840,000
8145673 Easily queriable software repositories Anthony Christopher Bloesch, Dennis W. Minium 2012-03-27 $17,566,000
7454462 Distributed computing services platform Joseph D. Belfiore, David G. Campbell, Steve Capps, Steven Cellini, Charles Fitzgerald +9 more 2008-11-18 $21,361,000
7263551 Distributed computing services platform Joseph D. Belfiore, David G. Campbell, Steve Capps, Steven Cellini, Charles Fitzgerald +9 more 2007-08-28 $25,091,000
6990513 Distributed computing services platform Joseph D. Belfiore, David G. Campbell, Steve Capps, Steven Cellini, Charles Fitzgerald +9 more 2006-01-24 $27,353,000
5706405 System and method for the design of software systems using a knowledge base Josephine O'Dwyer, James R. Abbott 1998-01-06 $8,258,000
5539862 System and method for the design of software system using a knowledge base Josephine O'Dwyer, James R. Abbott 1996-07-23 $8,497,000