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William Dixon — 8 Patents

Microsoft: 7 patents #6,431 of 40,388Top 20%
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
William Dixon has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in January 2022. William Dixon ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list William Dixon in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2008.peak 22004: 1 patents20042007: 1 patents20072008: 2 patents20082010: 1 patents20102015: 1 patents20152017: 1 patents20172022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11216514 Secure DNS query Jeromy S. Statia, Christopher J. Engdahl, Lee Walker 2022-01-04 $333,490,000
9740781 Secure DNS query Jeromy S. Statia, Christopher J. Engdahl, Lee Walker 2017-08-22 $33,577,000
8935748 Secure DNS query Jeromy S. Statia, Christopher J. Engdahl, Lee Walker 2015-01-13 $32,048,000
7761708 Method and framework for integrating a plurality of network policies Brian D. Swander 2010-07-20 $20,395,000
7386881 Method for mapping security associations to clients operating behind a network address translation device Brian D. Swander, Abolade Gbadegesin 2008-06-10
7346770 Method and apparatus for traversing a translation device with a security protocol Brian D. Swander 2008-03-18 $32,923,000
7308711 Method and framework for integrating a plurality of network policies Brian D. Swander 2007-12-11 $51,211,000
6697857 Centralized deployment of IPSec policy information Krishna Ganugapati, Abhishek Abhishek 2004-02-24 $122,787,000