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Neil Sharman — 5 Patents

Microsoft: 5 patents #8,859 of 40,388Top 25%
Sammamish, WA: #909 of 2,558 inventorsTop 40%
Washington: #19,692 of 76,902 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Neil Sharman has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in November 2015. Neil Sharman ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Neil Sharman in Sammamish, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9185163 Receiving individual documents to serve Daniel Yuan, Jay Kumar Goyal, Utkarsh Jain, Vibhaakar Sharma, Vinay Deshpande +1 more 2015-11-10 $38,752,000
9158767 Lock-free indexing of documents Vibhaakar Sharma 2015-10-13 $36,364,000
8990612 Recovery of a document serving environment Daniel Yuan, Jay Kumar Goyal, Utkarsh Jain, Vibhaakar Sharma, Vinay Deshpande 2015-03-24 $16,695,000
8239391 Hierarchical merging for optimized index Jay Kumar Goyal, Vibhaakar Sharma, Vinay Deshpande, Utkarsh Jain, Gaurav Sareen +2 more 2012-08-07 $11,434,000
8150841 Detecting spiking queries Christopher Avery Meyers, Gopi Prashanth Gopal, Andrew P. Oakley, Nitin Agrawal, Nicholas Eric Craswell +6 more 2012-04-03 $18,463,000