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Richard Yao — 17 Patents

Microsoft: 17 patents #2,212 of 40,388Top 6%
Morristown, NJ: #113 of 1,322 inventorsTop 9%
New Jersey: #4,970 of 69,400 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Richard Yao has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in July 2017. Richard Yao ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Richard Yao in Morristown, NJ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2009.peak 52005: 1 patents20052006: 3 patents20062007: 2 patents20072008: 1 patents20082009: 5 patents20092010: 3 patents20102011: 1 patents20112017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9703539 Viral application distribution Miller Thomas Abel, Joseph Futty, James Kai Yu Lau, Shai Guday 2017-07-11 $36,380,000
7886311 Synchronous RIL proxy Zihua Guo, Zhi Bin Li, Pung Pengyang Xu, Steven Oliver Elliott 2011-02-08 $17,009,000
7821974 UMTS RIL extension Zihua Guo, Yidong Wang, Pung Pengyang Xu, Steven Oliver Elliott 2010-10-26 $19,005,000
7747249 GSM/UMTS emulator Zihua Guo, Jin-Wei Shi, Pung Pengyang Xu, Steven Elliot 2010-06-29 $14,156,000
7702932 Power management of a network by increasing a number of adjacent flows that share a computing device Zihua Guo, Wenwu Zhu, Xin Wang 2010-04-20 $23,763,000
7636380 Orthogonal pulse polarity modulation Zihua Guo, Weiyu Xu, Wenwu Zhu 2009-12-22 $30,053,000
7631202 Power management of wireless local area network interface devices Zihua Guo, Abhishek Abhishek, Shipeng Li 2009-12-08 $24,284,000
7600000 Ultra wideband wireless storage device Steven O. Elliott, Ya-Qin Zhang 2009-10-06 $25,836,000
7499432 Vertical roaming in wireless networks through improved quality of service measures Zihua Guo, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu 2009-03-03 $17,333,000
7489656 Bandwidth allocation Zihua Guo, Jun Zhao, Wenwu Zhu 2009-02-10 $37,797,000
7426178 Vertical roaming in wireless networks through improved wireless network cell boundary detection Zihua Guo, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu 2008-09-16 $46,220,000
7290195 Adaptive acknowledgment delay Zihua Guo, Wenwu Zhu, Xin Liu 2007-10-30 $46,422,000
7203850 Power management for a network utilizing a vertex/edge graph technique Zihua Guo, Wenwu Zhu, Xin Wang 2007-04-10 $36,355,000
7154869 Vertical roaming in wireless networks through improved quality of service measures Zihua Guo, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu 2006-12-26 $33,911,000
7092405 Vertical roaming in wireless networks through improved quality of service measures Zihua Guo, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu 2006-08-15 $34,347,000
6982949 Vertical roaming in wireless networks through improved wireless network cell boundary detection Zihua Guo, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu 2006-01-03 $40,311,000
6944144 Vertical roaming in wireless networks through improved quality of service measures Zihua Guo, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu 2005-09-13 $44,038,000