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Mihai Costea — 32 Patents

Microsoft: 32 patents #758 of 40,388Top 2%
Redmond, WA: #284 of 8,547 inventorsTop 4%
Washington: #2,363 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Mihai Costea has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in October 2024. Mihai Costea ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Mihai Costea in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2010.peak 102003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2009: 3 patents20092010: 10 patents2011: 4 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 2 patents20132015: 2 patents2016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12113808 Campaign intelligence and visualization for combating cyberattacks Michael Abraham Betser, Ravi Kiran Reddy Poluri, Hua Ding, Weisheng Li, Phanindra Pampati +1 more 2024-10-08 $356,986,000
11057334 Message classification and management Paul M. Midgen, Vasantha K. Vemula, Krishna Vitaldevara, Jason D. Walter, Eliot C. Gillum +5 more 2021-07-06 $198,321,000
10699011 Efficient white listing of user-modifiable files Scott A. Field, Damodharan Ulagaratchagan 2020-06-30 $108,992,000
10043008 Efficient white listing of user-modifiable files Scott A. Field, Damodharan Ulagaratchagan 2018-08-07 $49,974,000
9292600 Message classification and management Paul M. Midgen, Vasantha K. Vemula, Krishna Vitaldevara, Jason D. Walter, Eliot C. Gillum +5 more 2016-03-22 $35,394,000
9043869 Aggregating the knowledge base of computer systems to proactively protect a computer from malware Anil Thomas, Michael Kramer, Efim Hudis, Pradeep Bahl, Rajesh Dadhia +1 more 2015-05-26 $39,842,000
8966620 Campaign detection Douglas J. Hines, Yuxiang Xu, Harsh Satyanarayan Dangayach, Krishna Vitaldevara, Eliot C. Gillum +2 more 2015-02-24 $23,623,000
8566406 Filtering of electronic mail messages destined for an internal network Mayerber L. Carvalho Neto, Chandresh K. Jain, Mayank Mehta 2013-10-22 $34,472,000
8516583 Aggregating the knowledge base of computer systems to proactively protect a computer from malware Anil Thomas, Michael Kramer, Efim Hudis, Pradeep Bahl, Rajesh Dadhia +1 more 2013-08-20 $25,328,000
8166113 Access limited EMM distribution lists Konstantin Ryvkin, Malcolm E. Pearson, Roy Williams 2012-04-24 $16,249,000
8161557 System and method of caching decisions on when to scan for malware Adrian Marinescu, Anil Thomas 2012-04-17 $18,832,000
8028026 Perimeter message filtering with extracted user-specific preferences Chandresh K. Jain, Malcolm E. Pearson, Nathan F. Waddoups, Eric D. Tribble 2011-09-27 $24,701,000
8010612 Secure transactional communication Jeffrey B. Kay, Jesse M. Dougherty, Mayerber Carvalho Neto, Jain Chandresh, Mayank Mehta 2011-08-30 $14,918,000
7899870 Determination of participation in a malicious software campaign Malcolm E. Pearson 2011-03-01 $18,854,000
7882561 System and method of caching decisions on when to scan for malware Adrian Marinescu, Anil Thomas 2011-02-01 $15,193,000
7861296 System and method for efficiently scanning a file for malware Adrian Bivol, Adrian Marinescu, Anil Thomas, Cenk Ergan, David A. Goebel +3 more 2010-12-28 $13,779,000
7774413 Email message hygiene stamp Daniel D. Longley, Malcolm E. Pearson 2010-08-10 $15,662,000
7765400 Aggregation of the knowledge base of antivirus software David A. Goebel, Adrian Marinescu, Anil Thomas 2010-07-27 $22,577,000
7765410 System and method of aggregating the knowledge base of antivirus software applications David A. Goebel, Adrian Marinescu, Anil Thomas 2010-07-27 $22,577,000
7757290 Bypassing software services to detect malware Yun Lin 2010-07-13 $16,921,000
7730141 Graphical interface for defining mutually exclusive destinations Patrick Baudisch, Aidan Delaney 2010-06-01 $13,800,000
7721334 Detection of code-free files Michael G. Sheldon, Zeke Odins-Lucas, Marc E. Seinfeld 2010-05-18 $13,421,000
7716743 Privacy friendly malware quarantines Adrian Marinescu, Anil Thomas, Gheorghe Marius Gheorghescu, Kyle Larsen, Vadim N. Bluvstein 2010-05-11 $12,269,000
7694340 Anti virus for an item store Balan Sethu Raman, Sameet Agarwal, Nigel R. Ellis, Sanjay Anand, Rohan Kumar +1 more 2010-04-06 $19,843,000
7689795 Smart card with volatile memory file subsystem Vinay Deo, Mahesh Lotlikar, Tak Chung Lung, David Milstein, Gilad Odinak 2010-03-30 $17,166,000