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Lawrence W. Osterman — 16 Patents

Microsoft: 16 patents #2,398 of 40,388Top 6%
Woodinville, WA: #191 of 1,504 inventorsTop 15%
Washington: #6,223 of 76,902 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Lawrence W. Osterman has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in April 2020. Lawrence W. Osterman ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Lawrence W. Osterman in Woodinville, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10635504 API versioning independent of product releases Brent Rector, Tassaduq Basu 2020-04-28 $105,632,000
9830146 API lifecycle platform and version management Brent Rector, William R. Messmer 2017-11-28 $49,736,000
9274622 Device specific data in a unified pointer message Stephen H. Wright, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Pak Kiu Chung, Raju Ramanathan, Krishnan Menon +3 more 2016-03-01 $41,986,000
9229790 Projecting native application programming interfaces of an operating system into other programming languages Harold L. Pierson, III, Brent Rector, Martyn S. Lovell, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe +9 more 2016-01-05 $38,756,000
9043305 Flexible metadata composition Harold L. Pierson, III, Elliot H. Omiya, Martyn S. Lovell, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe +6 more 2015-05-26 $39,842,000
8914350 Flexible metadata composition Harold L. Pierson, III, Elliot H. Omiya, Martyn S. Lovell, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe +6 more 2014-12-16 $40,875,000
8732838 Evaluating the effectiveness of a threat model Ivan Medvedev, Adam Shostack 2014-05-20 $34,318,000
8695021 Projecting native application programming interfaces of an operating system into other programming languages Harold L. Pierson, III, Brent Rector, Martyn S. Lovell, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe +9 more 2014-04-08 $34,914,000
8667466 Parameterized interface identifier techniques Aaron Lahman, Benjamin Kuhn, Kenneth W. Sykes, Hart Wilson, Joaquin Guanter Gonzalbez 2014-03-04 $30,366,000
8433697 Flexible metadata composition Harold L. Pierson, III, Elliot H. Omiya, Martyn S. Lovell, Mahesh Prakriya, Stephen C. Rowe +6 more 2013-04-30 $25,167,000
8406435 Audio submix management Frank Yerrace 2013-03-26 $14,876,000
7945440 Audio stream notification and processing Elliot H. Omiya, Noel R. Cross, Adeel A. Aslam 2011-05-17 $20,389,000
5935211 Distributed notification 1999-08-10 $488,301,000
5867650 Out-of-band data transmission 1999-02-02 $341,761,000
5864669 Method and system for accessing a particular instantiation of a server process Bharat Shah 1999-01-26 $509,182,000
5699503 Method and system for providing fault tolerance to a continuous media server system William J. Bolosky, Robert Patrick Fitzgerald 1997-12-16 $202,516,000