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Michael Freedman — 37 Patents

Microsoft: 36 patents #614 of 40,388Top 2%
MIMircosoft: 1 patents #6 of 57Top 15%
Redmond, WA: #207 of 8,547 inventorsTop 3%
Washington: #1,864 of 76,902 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #88,321 of 4,157,543Top 3%
37 Patents All Time
Michael Freedman has been granted 37 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in January 2024. Michael Freedman ranks #88,321 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.1%). Patent records list Michael Freedman in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2009.peak 62006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 4 patents20082009: 6 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 4 patents20132016: 3 patents2017: 1 patents20172019: 3 patents2020: 5 patents20202021: 1 patents2023: 3 patents20232024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 37 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11877523 Use of selective hydrogen etching technique for building topological qubits Roman Lutchyn, Andrey Antipov 2024-01-16 $353,435,000
11797872 Quantum bit prediction Alexei Bocharov, Eshan Kemp, Martin Roetteler, Krysta Svore 2023-10-24 $295,109,000
11707000 Side-gating in selective-area-grown topological qubits Dmitry PIKULIN, Roman Lutchyn, Peter Krogstrup Jeppesen, Parsa Bonderson 2023-07-18 $301,843,000
11696516 Quantum computing devices with Majorana Hexon qubits Chetan Nayak, Roman Lutchyn, Torsten Karzig, Parsa Bonderson 2023-07-04
11081634 Use of selective hydrogen etching technique for building topological qubits Roman Lutchyn, Andrey Antipov 2021-08-03 $214,702,000
10777605 Quantum computing devices with Majorana Hexon qubits Chetan Nayak, Roman Lutchyn, Torsten Karzig, Parsa Bonderson 2020-09-15 $149,125,000
10692010 Form and fabrication of semiconductor-superconductor nanowires and quantum devices based thereon Bernard van Heck, Georg Wolfgang Winkler, Torsten Karzig, Roman Lutchyn, Peter Krogstrup Jeppesen +3 more 2020-06-23 $123,189,000
10679138 Topological qubit fusion Zhenghan Wang, Roman Lutchyn, Chetan Nayak, Parsa Bonderson 2020-06-09 $114,158,000
10665701 Form and fabrication of semiconductor-superconductor nanowires and quantum devices based thereon Bernard van Heck, Georg Wolfgang Winkler, Torsten Karzig, Roman Lutchyn, Peter Krogstrup Jeppesen +3 more 2020-05-26 $85,749,000
10635988 Measuring and manipulating states of non-abelian quasiparticles via quantum dot hybridization energy shifts Roman Lutchyn, Parsa Bonderson, Torsten Karzig, Chetan Nayak, Jason Alicea +1 more 2020-04-28 $105,632,000
10490600 Quantum computing devices with majorana hexon qubits Chetan Nayak, Roman Lutchyn, Torsten Karzig, Parsa Bonderson 2019-11-26 $66,445,000
10346348 Quantum computing methods and devices for Majorana Tetron qubits Matthew Hastings, Torsten Karzig, Parsa Bonderson, Roman Lutchyn, Chetan Nayak 2019-07-09 $59,744,000
10204305 Measurement-only topological quantum computation Chetan Nayak, Parsa Bonderson 2019-02-12 $61,015,000
9713199 Topological qubit fusion Zhenghan Wang, Roman Lutchyn, Chetan Nayak, Parsa Bonderson 2017-07-18 $33,270,000
9517931 Measurement-only topological quantum computation Chetan Nayak, Parsa Bonderson 2016-12-13 $34,425,000
9275011 Fast quantum and classical phase estimation Krysta Svore, Matthew Hastings 2016-03-01 $41,986,000
9256834 Quantum computers having partial interferometric quantum gates Parsa Bonderson 2016-02-09 $44,306,000
8620835 Method for implementing the π/8 gate in a genus=1 ising system Parsa Bonderson, Chetan Nayak, Sankar Das Sarma 2013-12-31 $17,332,000
8606341 Twisted track interferometer for producing magic states Parsa Bonderson, Lukasz Fidkowski, Roman Lutchyn, Chetan Nayak 2013-12-10 $31,292,000
8583903 Helical band geometry for dynamical topology changing Parsa Bonderson, Chetan Nayak, Sankar Das Sarma 2013-11-12 $25,186,000
8581227 Quantum computational systems Chetan Nayak, Kirill Shtengel 2013-11-12 $25,186,000
8275428 Method for planar implementation of π/8 gate in chiral topological superconductors Parsa Bonderson, Chetan Nayak, Kevin Walker, Lukasz Fidkowski 2012-09-25 $17,180,000
8209279 Measurement-only topological quantum computation Chetan Nayak, Parsa Bonderson 2012-06-26 $23,366,000
8058638 Quantum computational systems Chetan Nayak, Kirill Shtengel 2011-11-15 $16,121,000
8053754 Quantum computational systems Chetan Nayak, Kirill Shtengel 2011-11-08 $44,949,000