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Vance Morrison — 42 Patents

Microsoft: 41 patents #493 of 40,388Top 2%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
Kirkland, WA: #95 of 3,517 inventorsTop 3%
Washington: #1,518 of 76,902 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #72,062 of 4,157,543Top 2%
42 Patents All Time
Vance Morrison has been granted 42 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in January 2021. Vance Morrison ranks #72,062 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Vance Morrison in Kirkland, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–42 of 42 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7433862 Declarative pinning Patrick H. Dussud 2008-10-07 $26,037,000
7367015 Method and system for software program editing in common language runtime environment (CLRE) William G. Evans, Jennifer Hamilton, Michael M. Magruder, Lawrence B. Sullivan, Sean E. Trowbridge +1 more 2008-04-29 $42,493,000
7171655 Verifier to check intermediate language Andrew D. Gordon, Donald Syme, Jonathon Forbes 2007-01-30 $40,909,000
7150006 Techniques for managed code debugging Andrew L. Bliss, Sean E. Trowbridge 2006-12-12 $25,378,000
7124405 Class initialization method semantics Gopala Krishna R. Kakivaya, Christopher W. Brumme, James S. Miller, David S. Mortenson, Sean E. Trowbridge 2006-10-17 $61,185,000
6993751 Placing exception throwing instructions in compiled code Sanjay Bhansali, Shajan Dasan, Brian D. Harry 2006-01-31 $25,520,000
6898611 Declarative pinning Patrick H. Dussud 2005-05-24 $49,147,000
6851108 Verifying intermediate language code Don Syme, Andrew D. Gordon, Jonathan Forbes 2005-02-01 $57,608,000
6836883 Method and system for compiling multiple languages Bradley Abrams, George H. Bosworth, Christopher W. Brumme, Patrick H. Dussud, Brian D. Harry +1 more 2004-12-28 $117,865,000
6836884 Method and system for editing software programs William G. Evans, Jennifer Hamilton, Michael M. Magruder, Lawrence B. Sullivan, Sean E. Trowbridge +1 more 2004-12-28 $117,865,000
6748503 System and method for facilitating unmanaged code participation in garbage collection 2004-06-08 $49,212,000
6598141 Manipulating interior pointers on a stack during garbage collection Patrick H. Dussud 2003-07-22 $113,485,000
6560774 Verifier to check intermediate language Andrew D. Gordon, Donald Syme, Jonathon Forbes 2003-05-06 $129,997,000
6484312 Inferring operand types within an intermediate language 2002-11-19 $181,413,000
6389590 Indefinite-size variables within an intermediate language James S. Miller, Peter Kukol 2002-05-14 $218,964,000
6151618 Safe general purpose virtual machine computing system Robert Wahbe, Steven Lucco, Christopher W. Fraser 2000-11-21 $568,825,000
6076090 Default schema mapping Tracy Kim Burroughs, Steven John Gansemer, Wilson D. Lee, Cynthia Ann Rogers, Laura Jane Zaborowski 2000-06-13 $39,484,000