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Robert T. Short — 24 Patents

Microsoft: 11 patents #3,886 of 40,388Top 10%
UFUniversity Of South Florida: 4 patents #258 of 1,794Top 15%
DEDigital Equipment: 3 patents #412 of 2,100Top 20%
SISri International: 2 patents #450 of 1,272Top 40%
ALAlereon: 2 patents #9 of 25Top 40%
Intel: 2 patents #13,316 of 30,777Top 45%
TTTetra Technologies: 1 patents #40 of 71Top 60%
Woodinville, WA: #118 of 1,504 inventorsTop 8%
Washington: #3,621 of 76,902 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Robert T. Short has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in August 2021. Robert T. Short ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Robert T. Short in Woodinville, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11101120 Fast pressure sensing system Ashish Chaudhary 2021-08-24 $27,844,000
8920986 Method and system for providing a flow through battery cell and uses thereof Andres M. Cardenas-Valencia, Lori Adornato, Larry Langebrake, Steven Crouch-Baker 2014-12-30 $3,114,000
8467284 Method and system for a scalable radio architecture James L. Lansford 2013-06-18 $12,077,000
8188422 Fabrication of three-dimensional ion optics assemblies by metallization of non-conductive substrates Friso Van Amerom, Ashish Chaudhary, Shekhar Bhansali, George Steimle 2012-05-29
8018831 Method and system for a scalable radio architecture James L. Lansford 2011-09-13 $11,921,000
7700911 Fabrication of 3-D ion optics assemblies by metallization of non-conductive substrates Friso H. W. van Amerom, Ashish Chaudhary, Shekhar Bhansali, George Steimle 2010-04-20
6744045 Portable underwater mass spectrometer David P. Fries, Robert H. Byrne 2004-06-01
6727498 Portable underwater mass spectrometer David P. Fries, Robert H. Byrne 2004-04-27
6336152 Method for automatically configuring devices including a network adapter without manual intervention and without prior configuration information Darryl Steven Richman, Moshe Lichtman, Mark R. Enstrom, Thomas E. Lennon, Ralph Lipe +2 more 2002-01-01
6279032 Method and system for quorum resource arbitration in a server cluster Rod Gamache, Michael T. Massa, John Vert 2001-08-21 $324,411,000
6178529 Method and system for resource monitoring of disparate resources in a server cluster Rod Gamache, Michael T. Massa, John Vert 2001-01-23 $1,263,556,000
6003097 System for automatically configuring a network adapter without manual intervention by using a registry data structure maintained within a computer system memory Darryl Steven Richman, Moshe Lichtman, Mark R. Enstrom, Thomas E. Lennon, Ralph Lipe +2 more 1999-12-14 $800,764,000
5958256 Method for pretreating an industrial wastewater William T. Ocel, Jr., James L. Starr, Jr., Casimir J. Borowski 1999-09-28 $9,079,000
5881252 Method and apparatus for automatically configuring circuit cards in a computer system Narendar Bahadur Sahgal, Ajay V. Bhatt, Philip W. Martin, Sudarshan B. Cadambi, Mark R. Enstrom +2 more 1999-03-09
5819107 Method for managing the assignment of device drivers in a computer system Moshe Lichtman, Mark R. Enstrom, Thomas E. Lennon, Ralph Lipe, Pierre-Yves Santerre +1 more 1998-10-06 $132,627,000
5809329 System for managing the configuration of a computer system Moshe Lichtman, Mark R. Enstrom, Thomas E. Lennon, Ralph Lipe, Pierre-Yves Santerre +1 more 1998-09-15 $265,752,000
5793979 System for allocating the resources of a computer system Moshe Lichtman, Mark R. Enstrom, Thomas E. Lennon, Ralph Lipe, Pierre-Yves Santerre +1 more 1998-08-11 $130,623,000
5787246 System for configuring devices for a computer system Moshe Lichtman, Mark R. Enstrom, Thomas E. Lennon, Ralph Lipe, Pierre-Yves Santerre +1 more 1998-07-28 $163,884,000
5768542 Method and apparatus for automatically configuring circuit cards in a computer system Mark R. Enstrom, Ralph L. Lipe, David W. Voth, Narendar Bahadur Sahgal, Ajay V. Bhatt +2 more 1998-06-16 $42,844,000
5708814 Method and apparatus for reducing the rate of interrupts by generating a single interrupt for a group of events John M. Parchem, David N. Cutler 1998-01-13 $345,985,000
5655148 Method for automatically configuring devices including a network adapter without manual intervention and without prior configuration information Darryl Steven Richman, Moshe Lichtman, Mark R. Enstrom, Thomas E. Lennon, Ralph Lipe +2 more 1997-08-05 $289,040,000
4893235 Central processing unit for a digital computer H. Bruce Butts, Jr., David N. Cutler, Peter C. Schnorr 1990-01-09 $61,072,000
4812971 Central processing unit for a digital computer H. Bruce Butts, Jr., David N. Cutler, Peter C. Schnorr 1989-03-14 $23,459,000
4586130 Central processing unit for a digital computer H. Bruce Butts, Jr., David N. Cutler, Peter C. Schnorr 1986-04-29 $29,789,000