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William B. Lees — 21 Patents

Microsoft: 21 patents #1,596 of 40,388Top 4%
Kirkland, WA: #257 of 3,517 inventorsTop 8%
Washington: #4,391 of 76,902 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
William B. Lees has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in January 2019. William B. Lees ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list William B. Lees in Kirkland, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10171239 Single use recovery key Sachin Goel, Stein Erik Dolan 2019-01-01
9489528 Single use recovery key Sachin Goel, Stein Erik Dolan 2016-11-08 $43,120,000
8769303 Infrastructure independent recovery key release Chris W. Hallum, Sachin Goel 2014-07-01 $33,016,000
8739255 Replicating selected secrets to local domain controllers Gregory C. Johnson, William S. Jack, III, Nathan Daniel Muggli 2014-05-27 $33,362,000
8578449 Replicating selected secrets to local domain controllers Gregory C. Johnson, Nathan Daniel Muggli, William S. Jack, III 2013-11-05 $39,616,000
8561209 Volume encryption lifecycle management Sachin Goel, Stein Erik Dolan 2013-10-15 $28,338,000
8375424 Replicating selected secrets to local domain controllers Gregory C. Johnson, William S. Jack, III, Nathan Daniel Muggli 2013-02-12 $17,029,000
8316455 Secure seed media Collin H. Brace, Nathan Daniel Muggli, William J. Whalen 2012-11-20 $16,799,000
8296824 Replicating selected secrets to local domain controllers Gregory C. Johnson, Nathan Daniel Muggli, William S. Jack, III 2012-10-23 $17,154,000
8250220 Generalized proximity service Jeffrey B. Parham, Levon A. Esibov, Nicholas Harvey 2012-08-21 $14,505,000
8145699 Generalized proximity service Jeffrey B. Parham, Levon A. Esibov, Nicholas Harvey 2012-03-27 $17,566,000
7921304 Securing data set images Colin Harrison Brace, Nathan Daniel Muggli, William J. Whalen 2011-04-05 $26,688,000
7774442 Distributed configuration management using loosely-coupled action-style documents Rajagopalan Badri Narayanan, Jeffrey B. Parham 2010-08-10 $15,662,000
7606937 Next site for distributed service connections Weiqing Tu, Billy J. Fuller, Nathan Daniel Muggli 2009-10-20 $35,334,000
7584195 Decomposing installation of distributed services Gregory C. Johnson, Mashuri Libman, William S. Jack, III 2009-09-01 $29,550,000
7526513 Multi-level replication and conflict resolution Jeffrey B. Parham, Mark R. Brown, Donald J. Hacherl 2009-04-28 $32,077,000
7499413 Method for designating communication paths in a network Jeffrey B. Parham, Mark R. Brown, Van H. Vu, Laszlo Lovasz, Nicholas Harvey +1 more 2009-03-03 $17,333,000
7162499 Linked value replication Jeffrey B. Parham, Mark R. Brown, Donald J. Hacherl 2007-01-09 $33,805,000
6879564 Method for designating communication paths in a network Jeffrey B. Parham, Mark R. Brown, Van H. Vu, Laszlo Lovasz, Nicholas Harvey +1 more 2005-04-12 $101,972,000
6654771 Method and system for network data replication Jeffrey B. Parham 2003-11-25 $162,149,000
6643670 Efficient replication of an expanded partial database Jeffrey B. Parham, Eyal Schwartz 2003-11-04 $99,503,000