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Mike Neil — 9 Patents

Microsoft: 9 patents #4,919 of 40,388Top 15%
Issaquah, WA: #310 of 1,767 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #11,701 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Mike Neil has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in October 2017. Mike Neil ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Mike Neil in Issaquah, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2011.peak 22008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents20122013: 2 patents20132015: 1 patents20152017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9785458 Systems and methods for providing seamless software compatibility using virtual machines 2017-10-10 $29,796,000
8972977 Systems and methods for providing seamless software compatibility using virtual machines 2015-03-03 $20,156,000
8527690 Optimization of non-volatile solid-state memory by moving data based on data generation and memory wear James R. Hamilton, Michael R. Fortin, Burton Smith 2013-09-03 $29,750,000
8504703 Systems and methods for instruction sequence compounding in a virtual machine environment Rene Antonio Vega, Eric P. Traut 2013-08-06 $23,592,000
8271976 Systems and methods for initializing multiple virtual processors within a single virtual machine Rene Antonio Vega, Eric P. Traut 2012-09-18 $20,371,000
8001403 Data center power management utilizing a power policy and a load factor James R. Hamilton, James J Freely, Michael Manos, Michael R. Fortin 2011-08-16 $15,401,000
7996785 Systems and methods for integrating application windows in a virtual machine environment 2011-08-09 $12,864,000
7689987 Systems and methods for stack-jumping between a virtual machine and a host environment 2010-03-30 $17,166,000
7383405 Systems and methods for voluntary migration of a virtual machine between hosts with common storage connectivity Rene Antonio Vega, Eric P. Traut 2008-06-03 $22,353,000