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Peter F. Drayton — 10 Patents

Microsoft: 10 patents #4,378 of 40,388Top 15%
Redmond, WA: #1,344 of 8,547 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #10,505 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Peter F. Drayton has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in May 2014. Peter F. Drayton ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Peter F. Drayton in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2013.peak 42007: 1 patents20072010: 3 patents20102011: 1 patents20112013: 4 patents20132014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8732732 Type inference and type-directed late binding Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Brian C. Beckman, David N. Schach, Amanda Silver, Paul A. Vick +2 more 2014-05-20 $34,318,000
8533693 Embedding expressions in XML literals Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, David N. Schach, Avner Y. Aharoni, Brian C. Beckman, Amanda Silver +1 more 2013-09-10 $23,590,000
8473932 Relaxed and extended delegates Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Brian C. Beckman, David N. Schach, Ralf Lammel, Avner Y. Aharoni 2013-06-25 $15,479,000
8473971 Type inference and type-directed late binding Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Brian C. Beckman, David N. Schach, Amanda Silver, Paul A. Vick +2 more 2013-06-25 $15,479,000
8370399 Building, viewing, and manipulating schema sets Stanislav Kitsis, Kevin H. Krouse, Federico A. Garcia, Steven P. Lindeman, Christopher J. Lovett +2 more 2013-02-05 $10,554,000
7945904 Embedding expression in XML literals Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, David N. Schach, Avner Y. Aharoni, Brian C. Beckman, Amanda Silver +1 more 2011-05-17 $20,389,000
7730448 Layered type systems Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, David N. Schach, Avner Y. Aharoni 2010-06-01 $13,800,000
7716656 Nullable and late binding Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Amanda Silver, Brian C. Beckman, Paul A. Vick, Avner Y. Aharoni +1 more 2010-05-11 $12,269,000
7694285 Relaxed and extended delegates Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Brian C. Beckman, David N. Schach, Ralf Lammel, Avner Y. Aharoni 2010-04-06 $19,843,000
7219329 Systems and methods providing lightweight runtime code generation Erik Meijer, Dario Russi 2007-05-15 $40,171,000