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Niranjan Nilakantan — 22 Patents

Microsoft: 20 patents #1,724 of 40,388Top 5%
Google: 1 patents #14,887 of 22,993Top 65%
Redmond, WA: #513 of 8,547 inventorsTop 7%
Washington: #4,130 of 76,902 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Niranjan Nilakantan has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in July 2025. Niranjan Nilakantan ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Niranjan Nilakantan in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2014.peak 62008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102012: 1 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 6 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 3 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents2023: 2 patents20232025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12353437 Synchronous replication in a distributed storage environment Bradley Gene Calder, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Shane Mainali +1 more 2025-07-08
12346319 Technique for parallel recovery on read replica Anjan Kumar Amirishetty, Simhachala Sasikanth Gottapu, Anthony Hsu, Junjie Liang 2025-07-01
11720594 Synchronous replication in a distributed storage environment Bradley Gene Calder, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Shane Mainali +1 more 2023-08-08 $313,798,000
11586594 Versioned and hierarchical data structures and distributed transactions Bradley Gene Calder, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Shane Mainali +5 more 2023-02-21 $324,327,000
10242026 Versioned and hierarchical data structures and distributed transactions Bradley Gene Calder, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Shane Mainali +5 more 2019-03-26 $49,304,000
9996572 Partition management in a partitioned, scalable, and available structured storage Bradley Gene Calder, Ju Wang, Arild E. Skjolsvold, Shashwat Srivastav, Deepali Bhardwaj 2018-06-12 $80,392,000
9519555 Synchronous replication in a distributed storage environment Bradley Gene Calder, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Shane Mainali +1 more 2016-12-13 $34,425,000
9274906 Implementing failover processes between storage stamps Bradley Gene Calder, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Arild E. Skjolsvold, Maxim Mazeev +6 more 2016-03-01 $41,986,000
9251021 Asynchronous replication in a distributed storage environment Bradley Gene Calder, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Shane Mainali +1 more 2016-02-02
9098470 Versioned and hierarchical data structures and distributed transactions Bradley Gene Calder, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Shane Mainali +5 more 2015-08-04 $40,584,000
8918362 Replication processes in a distributed storage environment Bradley Gene Calder, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Shane Mainali +1 more 2014-12-23 $35,011,000
8886796 Load balancing when replicating account data Bradley Gene Calder, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Shane Mainali +4 more 2014-11-11 $24,503,000
8868624 Blob manipulation in an integrated structured storage system Bradley Gene Calder, Ju Wang, Xinran Wu, Deepali Bhardwaj, Shashwat Srivastav +1 more 2014-10-21 $25,843,000
8769134 Scalable queues on a scalable structured storage system Bradley Gene Calder, Padmanabha Chakravarthy Uddaraju 2014-07-01 $33,016,000
8762336 Geo-verification and repair Bradley Gene Calder, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Abdul Rafay Abbasi, Shane Mainali +1 more 2014-06-24 $40,583,000
8751863 Implementing failover processes between storage stamps Bradley Gene Calder, Shashwat Srivastav, Jiesheng Wu, Arild E. Skjolsvold, Maxim Mazeev +6 more 2014-06-10 $30,051,000
8620884 Scalable blob storage integrated with scalable structured storage Bradley Gene Calder, Ju Wang, Xinran Wu, Deepali Bhardwaj, Shashwat Srivastav +1 more 2013-12-31 $17,332,000
8495036 Blob manipulation in an integrated structured storage system Bradley Gene Calder, Ju Wang, Xinran Wu, Deepali Bhardwaj, Shashwat Srivastav +1 more 2013-07-23 $26,254,000
8266290 Scalable queues on a scalable structured storage system Bradley Gene Calder, Padmanabha Chakravarthy Uddaraju 2012-09-11 $13,794,000
7669177 System and method for preference application installation and execution Robert H. Gerber, Holly Knight, Murali R. Krishnan, Shahaf Abileah, Shyamalan Pather 2010-02-23 $27,908,000
7509304 Message distribution system and method for providing notification(s) Shyamalan Pather, Holly Knight, Phil Garrett 2009-03-24 $26,092,000
7360202 User interface system and methods for providing notification(s) Praveen Seshadri, Shahaf Abileah, Holly Knight, Shyamalan Pather, Robert H. Gerber +4 more 2008-04-15 $27,161,000