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Michael C. Fanning — 55 Patents

Microsoft: 55 patents #282 of 40,388Top 1%
Redmond, WA: #95 of 8,547 inventorsTop 2%
Washington: #934 of 76,902 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #45,454 of 4,157,543Top 2%
55 Patents All Time
Michael C. Fanning has been granted 55 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in December 2025. Michael C. Fanning ranks #45,454 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Michael C. Fanning in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 2015.peak 132006: 1 patents20062010: 1 patents2011: 3 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 4 patents20132014: 8 patents2015: 13 patents20152016: 7 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 3 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 3 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 2 patents2024: 1 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 55 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12511430 Automated remediation of exposed secrets Nicolas Yves Couraud, Jacek A. Czerwonka, Christopher Michael Henry Faucon, Ying-Qing Yu, Etan Micah Basseri +2 more 2025-12-30
12430462 Telemetry sampling scanning for exposed secrets and other sensitive data Eugene W. Hodges, Jacek A. Czerwonka, Nicolas Yves Couraud, Christopher Michael Henry Faucon 2025-09-30
12225002 Enriching exposed credential search results to make them actionable Suvam Mukherjee, Jacek A. Czerwonka, Christopher Michael Henry Faucon, Eddy Toshiyuki Okada Nakamura, Danielle Gonzalez +2 more 2025-02-11
12061903 Software development quality assessment Suvam Mukherjee, Danielle Gonzalez, Christopher Michael Henry Faucon, Pragya Prakash 2024-08-13 $383,964,000
11675768 Compression/decompression using index correlating uncompressed/compressed content Scott M. Louvau 2023-06-13 $297,914,000
11663245 Initial loading of partial deferred object model Scott M. Louvau 2023-05-30 $361,099,000
11294878 Using border data structure with index Scott M. Louvau 2022-04-05 $223,258,000
10545852 Diagnostics of state transitions Felix Gerard Torquil Ifor Andrew, Daniel J. Moseley, Simon Calvert, Andrew R. Sterland, Timothy S. Rice +11 more 2020-01-28 $91,574,000
10540416 Linking source code to running element Matthew Hall, Gary Linscott, Felix Gerard Torquil Ifor Andrew, Kenneth A. Showman, Evgeny Tvorun 2020-01-21 $61,337,000
10534830 Dynamically updating a running page Matthew Hall, Gary Linscott, Evgeny Tvorun 2020-01-14 $71,807,000
10503743 Integrating search with application analysis Scott M. Louvau, Christopher M. Faucon 2019-12-10
10162628 Transactional distributed data analysis and transformation Laurence Golding, Srivatsn Narayanan, Jinu Joseph, GEN-CHI LU, David Andrew Knise 2018-12-25
10078575 Diagnostics of state transitions Felix Gerard Torquil Ifor Andrew, Daniel J. Moseley, Simon Calvert, Andrew R. Sterland, Timothy S. Rice +11 more 2018-09-18 $107,363,000
9875090 Program analysis based on program descriptors Frederico A. Mameri, Christopher M. Faucon 2018-01-23 $52,883,000
9785778 Directed execution of dynamic programs in isolated environments Reza Arbabi, Wing Kwong Wan, George Raymond Derryberry, Jr. 2017-10-10 $29,796,000
9760415 Code service for language-independent dispatch Frederico A. Mameri, Zhenguang Chen, Shaofeng Zhu 2017-09-12 $27,507,000
9665463 In-process wrapped execution engine(s) for tooling a dynamic program across a process boundary Benjamin J. Anderson, Timothy S. Rice, Andrew R. Sterland 2017-05-30 $44,969,000
9507653 Inter-process communication channel Benjamin J. Anderson, Timothy S. Rice, Andrew R. Sterland 2016-11-29 $32,020,000
9430528 Grid queries Scott M. Louvau, Christopher M. Faucon 2016-08-30 $26,338,000
9424008 API descriptions Ani Babaian, Jomo Fisher, Anson M. Horton, Lucas J. Hoban 2016-08-23 $31,125,000
9367429 Diagnostics of declarative source elements Felix Gerard Torquil Ifor Andrew, Ahmad Ahmad 2016-06-14 $42,465,000
9317694 Directed execution of dynamic programs in isolated environments Reza Arbabi, Wing Kwong Wan, George Raymond Derryberry, Jr. 2016-04-19 $39,586,000
9262597 Validating normalized code representations Bala Neerumalla, Alain Comeau, Johann Rehberger, Graham Calladine, Wing Kwong Wan +3 more 2016-02-16 $29,091,000
9256401 Editor visualization of symbolic relationships Randy S. Kimmerly, Steven Lucco, Andrew R. Sterland 2016-02-09 $44,306,000
9189517 Integrating search with application analysis Scott M. Louvau, Christopher M. Faucon 2015-11-17 $49,804,000