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Lance Olson — 31 Patents

Microsoft: 31 patents #808 of 40,388Top 3%
Sammamish, WA: #152 of 2,558 inventorsTop 6%
Washington: #2,479 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
Lance Olson has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in June 2020. Lance Olson ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list Lance Olson in Sammamish, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2006.peak 52005: 1 patents20052006: 5 patents2007: 2 patents20072008: 5 patents2009: 4 patents20092010: 2 patents2011: 1 patents20112015: 1 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 4 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 2 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–31 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7120916 Protocol agnostic web listener Richard L. Firth, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Henry L. Sanders 2006-10-10 $38,177,000
7043522 Unbounded computing space Eric K. Zinda 2006-05-09 $41,729,000
7017162 Application program interface for network software platform Adam Smith, Anthony J. Moore, Brian A. LaMacchia, Anders Hejlsberg, Brian Grunkemeyer +45 more 2006-03-21 $26,456,000
7013469 Application program interface for network software platform Adam Smith, Anthony J. Moore, Brian A. LaMacchia, Anders Hejlsberg, Brian Grunkemeyer +45 more 2006-03-14 $49,415,000
6996833 Protocol agnostic request response pattern Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Henry L. Sanders, Richard L. Firth 2006-02-07 $26,131,000
6931647 Protocol agnostic web listener Richard L. Firth, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Henry L. Sanders 2005-08-16 $46,004,000