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Mingdong Shang — 5 Patents

Microsoft: 5 patents #8,859 of 40,388Top 25%
Bellevue, WA: #2,016 of 6,950 inventorsTop 30%
Washington: #19,692 of 76,902 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Mingdong Shang has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in January 2023. Mingdong Shang ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Mingdong Shang in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2014.peak 22014: 2 patents20142016: 1 patents20162020: 1 patents20202023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11570255 SMB2 scaleout David Kruse, Daniel Edward Lovinger, Thomas E. Jolly, James T. Pinkerton, Mathew George +1 more 2023-01-31 $254,377,000
10630781 SMB2 scaleout David Kruse, Daniel Edward Lovinger, Thomas E. Jolly, James T. Pinkerton, Mathew George +1 more 2020-04-21 $75,244,000
9462039 Transparent failover Mathew George, David Kruse, James T. Pinkerton, Roopesh C. Battepati, Tom Jolly +2 more 2016-10-04 $46,434,000
8856582 Transparent failover Mathew George, David Kruse, James T. Pinkerton, Roopesh C. Battepati, Tom Jolly +2 more 2014-10-07 $28,629,000
8806030 Multichannel connections in file system sessions Qibo Zhu, David Kruse, Mathew George 2014-08-12 $19,073,000