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William D. Taylor — 38 Patents

Microsoft: 12 patents #3,517 of 40,388Top 9%
RIRubbermaid Incorporated: 10 patents #67 of 574Top 15%
HAHughes Aircraft: 3 patents #508 of 2,963Top 20%
MTMonsanto Technology: 3 patents #1,161 of 1,657Top 75%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
HSHughes Danbury Optical Systems: 1 patents #8 of 35Top 25%
Woodbury, MN: #95 of 1,562 inventorsTop 7%
Minnesota: #1,407 of 52,454 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #84,675 of 4,157,543Top 3%
38 Patents All Time
William D. Taylor has been granted 38 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in September 2025. William D. Taylor ranks #84,675 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list William D. Taylor in Woodbury, MN, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 38 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12427105 Hydrogel-based biological delivery vehicle Daniel Sipple, James Segermark 2025-09-30
11471402 Hydrogel-based biological delivery vehicle Daniel Sipple, James Segermark 2022-10-18
9525679 Sending session tokens through passive clients Seshadri Mani, Haytham Abuel-Futuh, Titus C. Miron, Murli Satagopan 2016-12-20 $47,770,000
9276928 Sending session tokens through passive clients Seshadri Mani, Haytham Abuel-Futuh, Titus C. Miron, Murli Satagopan 2016-03-01 $41,986,000
9015807 Authorizing application access to secure resources Robert McKee Howard, Titus C. Miron, Shaofeng Zhu, Eray Aydin, Venkatesh Veeraraghavan 2015-04-21 $29,497,000
8856736 Web service proxy interface augmentation Nikhil Khare 2014-10-07 $28,629,000
8606816 Management of collections of websites Zachary Rosenfield, Titus C. Miron, Jason Cahill, Umesh Unnikrishnan, Harshal Ingole +1 more 2013-12-10 $31,292,000
8370914 Transition from WS-Federation passive profile to active profile Javier Dalzell, Christian Roy, Venkatesh Veeraraghavan 2013-02-05 $10,554,000
8296774 Service-based endpoint discovery for client-side load balancing Umesh Unnikrishnan, Kshamta Jerath 2012-10-23 $17,154,000
8224804 Indexing of partitioned external data sources Umesh Unnikrishnan, Jason Cahill, Titus C. Miron, Zachary Rosenfield, Brian Robbins 2012-07-17 $17,052,000
8065327 Management of collections of websites Zachary Rosenfield, Titus C. Miron, Jason Cahill, Umesh Unnikrishnan, Harshal Ingole +1 more 2011-11-22 $15,326,000
8010671 Method and system for shared resource providers Steven Tullis 2011-08-30 $14,918,000
7577661 Extensible and automatically replicating server farm configuration management infrastructure John Keith Bankston, Corey M. Roussel 2009-08-18 $21,161,000
7461170 Zone-based rendering of resource addresses Dean S. Halstead, Andrew Datars, Alfredo Almada-Mireles 2008-12-02 $27,764,000
6447914 Method of uniformly depositing seed and a conductor and the resultant printed circuit structure Anastasios Angelopoulos, Gerald W. Jones, Luis J. Matienzo, Thomas R. Miller 2002-09-10 $13,066,000
6136513 Method of uniformly depositing seed and a conductor and the resultant printed circuit structure Anastasios Angelopoulos, Gerald W. Jones, Luis J. Matienzo, Thomas R. Miller 2000-10-24 $26,546,000
6063235 Gas discharge apparatus for wafer etching systems 2000-05-16
5428172 Preparation of 3-dihaloacetyl oxazolidines Bruce J. Gaede 1995-06-27 $16,331,000
5391252 Plasma pressure control assembly 1995-02-21
5362150 Fluid mixer 1994-11-08
5209291 Cooling apparatus for optical devices 1993-05-11
5168924 Low surface distortion monochromator 1992-12-08
4970389 Vehicle identification system John W. Danforth 1990-11-13
4838625 Rotary closet wardrobe 1989-06-13
4694082 Compound 1,4-diisopropyl-2,5-diketopiperazine William H. Miller 1987-09-15 $11,135,000