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Scott R. Shell — 39 Patents

Microsoft: 39 patents #537 of 40,388Top 2%
Kirkland, WA: #113 of 3,517 inventorsTop 4%
Washington: #1,718 of 76,902 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #81,245 of 4,157,543Top 2%
39 Patents All Time
Scott R. Shell has been granted 39 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in October 2025. Scott R. Shell ranks #81,245 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Scott R. Shell in Kirkland, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 39 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12443699 Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices Yogesh A. Mehta, Octavian T. Ureche, Innokentiy Basmov, Peter Novotney, Christopher Leonard Walstad 2025-10-14
12069132 Propagating origin information for applications during application installation Kinshumann Kinshumann, Thomas W. Caldwell, Jeffrey A. Sutherland, Jeffrey R. McKune, Deskin M. Miller +2 more 2024-08-20 $244,576,000
11722566 Propagating origin information for applications during application installation Kinshumann Kinshumann, Thomas W. Caldwell, Jeffrey A. Sutherland, Jeffrey R. McKune, Deskin M. Miller +2 more 2023-08-08 $313,798,000
11295004 Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices Yogesh A. Mehta, Octavian T. Ureche, Innokentiy Basmov, Peter Novotney, Christopher Leonard Walstad 2022-04-05 $223,258,000
11263309 Block device signature-based integrity protection for containerized applications Md Nazmus Sakib, Jeffrey A. Sutherland, Deven Desai, Jaskaran Singh Khurana, Jessica M. Krynitsky 2022-03-01 $213,318,000
11082491 Propagating origin information for applications during application installation Kinshumann Kinshumann, Thomas W. Caldwell, Jeffrey A. Sutherland, Jeffrey R. McKune, Deskin M. Miller +2 more 2021-08-03 $214,702,000
10956615 Securely defining operating system composition without multiple authoring Md. Nazmus Sakib, Kinshumann, Dale Russel Rolf, Daryn Robbins, Ian James McCarty +2 more 2021-03-23 $162,800,000
10803175 Device attestation through security hardened management agent Janani Vasudevan, Peter David Waxman, Kinshuman Kinshumann, Justin Alexander Chi-Young Hou, Peter J. Kaufman +2 more 2020-10-13 $174,529,000
10713350 Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices Yogesh A. Mehta, Octavian T. Ureche, Innokentiy Basmov, Peter Novotney, Christopher Leonard Walstad 2020-07-14 $94,985,000
10078748 Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices Yogesh A. Mehta, Octavian T. Ureche, Innokentiy Basmov, Peter Novotney, Christopher Leonard Walstad 2018-09-18 $107,363,000
9762396 Device theft protection associating a device identifier and a user identifier Mihai Irinel Susan, Bogdan Andreiu, Scott Michael Bragg, Ling Tony Chen 2017-09-12 $27,507,000
9565169 Device theft protection associating a device identifier and a user identifier Mihai Irinel Susan, Bogdan Andreiu, Scott Michael Bragg, Ling Tony Chen 2017-02-07 $50,314,000
9418219 Inter-process message security Avinashreddy Bathula, Jimmy Alexander, Keith C. Bentley, Neil L. Coles, Brian Hudson +5 more 2016-08-16 $41,736,000
8397290 Granting least privilege access for computing processes Neil L. Coles, Upender Sandadi, Angelo Renato Vals, Matthew G. Lyons, Christopher Ross Jordan +3 more 2013-03-12 $20,251,000
7930760 Centralized enforcement of name-based computer system security rules Neil L. Coles, Yadhu Gopalan, Christopher Ross Jordan, Matthew G. Lyons, Andrew Rogers +5 more 2011-04-19 $17,129,000
7870490 On-the-fly device configuration and management Neil L. Coles, Hung M. Dang, Yuhang Zhu, Miller Thomas Abel 2011-01-11 $22,719,000
7712099 Method and apparatus for synchronization of periodic processes Garrett R. Vargas, Matthew Whiting Taylor 2010-05-04 $20,100,000
7698223 Pluggable file-based digital rights management API layer for applications and engines Andrew D. Padawer, Katharine Holdsworth, Miguel A. Claudio, William E. Stelzel 2010-04-13 $18,577,000
7568195 Determining a maximal set of dependent software updates valid for installation Michael E. Markley, Jeffrey D. Glaum 2009-07-28 $31,590,000
7549042 Applying custom software image updates to non-volatile storage in a failsafe manner Jeffery D. Glaum, Andrew Rogers, Michael E. Markley, Sachin Patel, Mark Tonkelowitz +1 more 2009-06-16 $26,863,000
7549148 Self-describing software image update components Brian Cross, Michael E. Markley, Lorna Rebecca McNeill, Jeffrey D. Glaum 2009-06-16 $26,863,000
7529197 System and method for continuously provisioning a mobile device Lee Butler 2009-05-05 $21,029,000
7509497 System and method for providing security to an application George Joy, Mukkul Dasgupta, Yadhu Gopalan 2009-03-24 $26,092,000
7478392 Method and apparatus for synchronization of periodic processes Garrett R. Vargas, Matthew Whiting Taylor 2009-01-13 $27,818,000
7349990 System and method to query settings on a mobile device Igor B. Peev, Yuhang Zhu 2008-03-25 $28,373,000