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Robert M. Fries — 88 Patents

Microsoft: 84 patents #96 of 40,388Top 1%
RTX (Raytheon): 3 patents #3,886 of 15,912Top 25%
WNWebtv Networks: 1 patents #51 of 95Top 55%
Kirkland, WA: #24 of 3,517 inventorsTop 1%
Washington: #365 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #18,739 of 4,157,543Top 1%
88 Patents All Time
Robert M. Fries has been granted 88 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in July 2020. Robert M. Fries ranks #18,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.45%). Patent records list Robert M. Fries in Kirkland, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2009.peak 91998: 2 patents19981999: 1 patents2001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2005: 3 patents2006: 6 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 2 patents2009: 9 patents20092010: 9 patents2011: 8 patents2012: 6 patents20122013: 7 patents2014: 7 patents2015: 8 patents20152016: 5 patents2017: 3 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 3 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 88 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10725769 Automated deployment and servicing of distributed applications William L. Scheidel, Srivatsan Parthasarathy, Alan Shi, James P. Finnigan 2020-07-28 $115,702,000
10621204 Business application publication Vijay Mital, Max Uritsky, Suraj T. Poozhiyil, Moe Khosravy 2020-04-14 $125,652,000
10540159 Model-based virtual system provisioning Anders Vinberg, Kevin Grealish, Galen C. Hunt, Aamer Hydrie, Edwin R. Lassettre +8 more 2020-01-21 $61,337,000
10261776 Automated deployment and servicing of distributed applications William L. Scheidel, Srivatsan Parthasarathy, Alan Shi, James P. Finnigan 2019-04-16 $47,495,000
10114630 Management of software and operating system updates required for the process of creating a virtual machine facsimile of an existing physical or virtual machine Venkatasubrahmanyan Raman, Natalya V. Varava, Sergey Royt 2018-10-30 $61,995,000
10013281 Controlling network utilization 2018-07-03 $70,231,000
9952852 Automated deployment and servicing of distributed applications William L. Scheidel, Srivatsan Parthasarathy, Alan Shi, James P. Finnigan 2018-04-24 $35,451,000
9858114 Virtual machine migration tool Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi 2018-01-02 $40,719,000
9811368 Model-based virtual system provisioning Anders Vinberg, Kevin Grealish, Galen C. Hunt, Aamer Hydrie, Edwin R. Lassettre +8 more 2017-11-07 $54,414,000
9807129 Host enabled management channel Srivatsan Parthasarathy, Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Aravind Ramarathinam, Michael Grier 2017-10-31 $36,443,000
9569259 Virtual machine migration tool Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi 2017-02-14 $53,256,000
9501124 Virtual machine placement based on power calculations 2016-11-22 $43,983,000
9430947 Maritime autonomous station keeping (MASK) James J. Richardson, Robert C. Saunders 2016-08-30 $28,233,000
9317279 Virtual machine block substitution Srivatsan Parthasarathy 2016-04-19 $39,586,000
9317270 Model-based virtual system provisioning Anders Vinberg, Kevin Grealish, Galen C. Hunt, Aamer Hydrie, Edwin R. Lassettre +8 more 2016-04-19 $39,586,000
9286182 Virtual machine snapshotting and analysis Galen C. Hunt, Shobana Balakrishnan 2016-03-15 $43,879,000
9207962 Virtual machine image analysis Galen C. Hunt, Srivatsan Parthasarathy 2015-12-08 $46,233,000
9191454 Host enabled management channel Srivatsan Parthasarathy, Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Aravind Ramarathinam, Michael Grier 2015-11-17 $49,804,000
9176773 Virtual machine migration tool Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi 2015-11-03 $50,275,000
9152402 Automated deployment and servicing of distributed applications William L. Scheidel, Srivatsan Parthasarathy, Alan Shi, James P. Finnigan 2015-10-06 $38,348,000
9104992 Business application publication Vijay Mital, Max Uritsky, Suraj T. Poozhiyil, Moe Khosravy 2015-08-11 $31,793,000
8990160 Managing data with backup server indexing Vijay Sen, Karandeep Singh Anand 2015-03-24 $16,695,000
8977867 Corralling virtual machines with encryption keys Dharshan Rangegowda 2015-03-10 $31,260,000
8930315 Using a data protection server to backup and restore data on virtual servers Nikhil Chandhok, Michael L. Michael 2015-01-06 $23,359,000
8924930 Virtual machine image lineage 2014-12-30 $26,363,000