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Paolo Costa — 21 Patents

Microsoft: 19 patents #1,867 of 40,388Top 5%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Paolo Costa has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in July 2025. Paolo Costa ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Paolo Costa in London, CA, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2013 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2023.peak 42013: 1 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 2 patents2023: 4 patents20232024: 2 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12356126 Efficiently interconnecting computing nodes to enable use of high-radix network switches Hitesh Ballani, Winston Allen SAUNDERS, Christian L. Belady, Lisa R. Hsu, Douglas M. Carmean 2025-07-08
12328148 Communication in a switching network Kai Shi, Hitesh Ballani, Istvan Haller, Daniel Jonathan Finchley Cletheroe, Sophie Gloria LANGE +3 more 2025-06-10
12298553 Graded-index polymer optical fibre and the fabrication thereof Gilberto Brambilla, Kai Shi, Hitesh Ballani, Richard James Baca 2025-05-13
11931977 Multi-core polymer optical fibre and the fabrication thereof Gilberto Brambilla, Kai Shi, Hitesh Ballani, Richard James Baca 2024-03-19 $401,127,000
11901955 Communication in a switching network Kai Shi, Hitesh Ballani, Istvan Haller, Daniel Jonathan Finchley Cletheroe, Sophie Gloria LANGE +3 more 2024-02-13 $276,460,000
11855690 Sloping single point optical aggregation Winston Allen SAUNDERS, Christian L. Belady, Lisa R. Hsu, Hitesh Ballani, Douglas M. Carmean 2023-12-26 $391,639,000
11832033 Efficiently interconnecting computing nodes to enable use of high-radix network switches Hitesh Ballani, Winston Allen SAUNDERS, Christian L. Belady, Lisa R. Hsu, Douglas M. Carmean 2023-11-28 $298,085,000
11791926 Efficiently interconnecting a plurality of computing nodes to form a circuit-switched network Hitesh Ballani, Christian L. Belady, Lisa R. Hsu, Winston Allen SAUNDERS, Douglas M. Carmean +2 more 2023-10-17 $282,604,000
11678090 Using free-space optics to interconnect a plurality of computing nodes Winston Allen SAUNDERS, Christian L. Belady, Lisa R. Hsu, Hitesh Ballani, Douglas M. Carmean 2023-06-13 $297,914,000
11539453 Efficiently interconnecting a plurality of computing nodes to form a circuit-switched network Hitesh Ballani, Christian L. Belady, Lisa R. Hsu, Winston Allen SAUNDERS, Douglas M. Carmean +2 more 2022-12-27 $199,145,000
11476934 Sloping single point optical aggregation Winston Allen SAUNDERS, Christian L. Belady, Lisa R. Hsu, Hitesh Ballani, Douglas M. Carmean 2022-10-18 $176,053,000
11109122 Using free-space optics to interconnect a plurality of computing nodes Winston Allen SAUNDERS, Christian L. Belady, Lisa R. Hsu, Hitesh Ballani, Douglas M. Carmean 2021-08-31 $193,687,000
10965443 Amplitude caching in receive from many communications networks Istvan Haller, Krzysztof JOZWIK, Hitesh Ballani, Benn Charles Thomsen, Foteini KARINOU +3 more 2021-03-30 $145,552,000
9906433 API supporting server and key based networking Gregory O'Shea, Austin Donnelly, Antony Rowstron 2018-02-27 $69,890,000
9727383 Predicting datacenter performance to improve provisioning Hitesh Ballani, Thomas Karagiannis, Antony Rowstron, Virajith Jalaparti 2017-08-08 $27,985,000
9519500 Offering network performance guarantees in multi-tenant datacenters Hitesh Ballani, Thomas Karagiannis, Antony Rowstron 2016-12-13 $34,425,000
9320715 Devices and methods for weight control and weight loss 2016-04-26
9015345 API supporting server and key based networking Gregory O'Shea, Austin Donnelly, Antony Rowstron 2015-04-21 $29,497,000
8722066 Devices and methods for weight control and weight loss 2014-05-13
8671407 Offering network performance guarantees in multi-tenant datacenters Hitesh Ballani, Thomas Karagiannis, Antony Rowstron 2014-03-11 $51,704,000
8499222 Supporting distributed key-based processes Antony Rowstron, Gregory O'Shea, Austin Donnelly 2013-07-30 $35,826,000