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Thomas E. Lennon — 8 Patents

Microsoft: 8 patents #5,580 of 40,388Top 15%
Seattle, WA: #3,798 of 21,776 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #13,119 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Thomas E. Lennon has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in January 2002. Thomas E. Lennon ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Thomas E. Lennon in Seattle, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
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, Ralph Lipe, Pierre-Yves Santerre +2 more 2002-01-01
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, Ralph Lipe, Pierre-Yves Santerre +2 more 1999-12-14 $800,764,000
5819107 Method for managing the assignment of device drivers in a computer system Moshe Lichtman, Mark R. Enstrom, Ralph Lipe, Pierre-Yves Santerre, Robert T. Short +1 more 1998-10-06 $132,627,000
5809329 System for managing the configuration of a computer system Moshe Lichtman, Mark R. Enstrom, Ralph Lipe, Pierre-Yves Santerre, Robert T. Short +1 more 1998-09-15 $265,752,000
5793979 System for allocating the resources of a computer system Moshe Lichtman, Mark R. Enstrom, Ralph Lipe, Pierre-Yves Santerre, Robert T. Short +1 more 1998-08-11 $130,623,000
5787246 System for configuring devices for a computer system Moshe Lichtman, Mark R. Enstrom, Ralph Lipe, Pierre-Yves Santerre, Robert T. Short +1 more 1998-07-28 $163,884,000
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, Ralph Lipe, Pierre-Yves Santerre +2 more 1997-08-05 $289,040,000
5146580 Method and system for using expanded memory for operating system buffers and application buffers Harish K. Naidu, Mike Williamson, Sunil Pai 1992-09-08 $155,839,000