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Peter Novotney — 12 Patents

Microsoft: 12 patents #3,517 of 40,388Top 9%
Seattle, WA: #2,444 of 21,776 inventorsTop 15%
Washington: #8,631 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Peter Novotney has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2015 and the most recent in October 2025. Peter Novotney ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Peter Novotney in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2015 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2018.peak 42015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 4 patents20182020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12443699 Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices Yogesh A. Mehta, Octavian T. Ureche, Scott R. Shell, Innokentiy Basmov, Christopher Leonard Walstad 2025-10-14
11295004 Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices Yogesh A. Mehta, Octavian T. Ureche, Scott R. Shell, Innokentiy Basmov, Christopher Leonard Walstad 2022-04-05 $223,258,000
10915656 Rollback protection for login security policy Benjamin Nick, Magnus Bo Gustaf Nyström, Innokentiy Basmov, Michael Grass 2021-02-09 $275,728,000
10726147 File encryption support for FAT file systems Darwin Ou-Yang, Ravinder S. Thind 2020-07-28 $115,702,000
10713350 Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices Yogesh A. Mehta, Octavian T. Ureche, Scott R. Shell, Innokentiy Basmov, Christopher Leonard Walstad 2020-07-14 $94,985,000
10078748 Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices Yogesh A. Mehta, Octavian T. Ureche, Scott R. Shell, Innokentiy Basmov, Christopher Leonard Walstad 2018-09-18 $107,363,000
10049228 File encryption support for FAT file systems Darwin Ou-Yang, Ravinder S. Thind 2018-08-14 $70,220,000
9984250 Rollback protection for login security policy Benjamin Nick, Magnus Bo Gustaf Nyström, Innokentiy Basmov, Michael Grass 2018-05-29 $74,788,000
9900325 Passive encryption of organization data Alex M. Semenko, Preston Derek Adam, Innokentiy Basmov, Narendra S. Acharya, Salil Arun Bhagurkar +1 more 2018-02-20 $49,495,000
9853812 Secure key management for roaming protected content Yogesh A. Mehta, Innokentiy Basmov, Octavian T. Ureche, Preston Derek Adam, Mugdha Lakhani +3 more 2017-12-26 $39,944,000
9430664 Data protection for organizations on computing devices Preston Derek Adam, Nathan J. Ide, Innokentiy Basmov, Narendra S. Acharya, Octavian T. Ureche +4 more 2016-08-30 $26,338,000
9058497 Cryptographic key management Vijay G. Bharadwaj, Niels T. Ferguson, Carl M. Ellison, Magnus Bo Gustaf Nyström, Dayi Zhou +3 more 2015-06-16 $66,233,000

Frequent Collaborators

Innokentiy Basmov9 shared
Octavian T. Ureche7 shared
Yogesh A. Mehta6 shared
Christopher Leonard Walstad4 shared
Scott R. Shell4 shared
Preston Derek Adam3 shared

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