William R. Taylor has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft . The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in September 2025. William R. Taylor ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list William R. Taylor in San Jose, CA, US.
Patents per Year Patents granted per year, 1982 to 2025 Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2009. peak 3 1982: 1 patents 1982 1985: 1 patents 1986: 1 patents 1986 1987: 1 patents 1991: 2 patents 1991 1993: 1 patents 1994: 2 patents 1994 1995: 2 patents 2004: 1 patents 2004 2005: 1 patents 2006: 1 patents 2006 2007: 1 patents 2009: 3 patents 2009 2010: 1 patents 2020: 1 patents 2020 2021: 1 patents 2025: 1 patents 2025
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Showing 1–22 of 22 patents
Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx Value ⓘ
12423125 Methods and systems for storage virtual machine migration between clusters of a networked storage system Atul Ramesh Pandit , Kalaivani Arumugham , Akhil Kaushik , Ching-Yuk Paul Ngan , Kazunobu Nishime +1 more 2025-09-23
10919237 Pick and place end effector Paul Stone 2021-02-16
$51,347,000
10710318 High speed composite layup via multiple machines Paul Stone 2020-07-14
$52,539,000
7676756 Mapping tool graphical user interface Nagender Vedula , Aditya Bhandarkar , Dharma Shukla 2010-03-09
$20,400,000
7636894 Mapping tool graphical user interface Nagender Vedula , Aditya Bhandarkar , Dharma Shukla 2009-12-22
$30,053,000
7624106 Method and apparatus for generating user-level difference information about two data sets Stephen L. Manley 2009-11-24
$97,008,000
7562546 Locking system — 2009-07-21
7181734 Method of compiling schema mapping Shekhar N. Swamy 2007-02-20
$43,202,000
7043842 Automatic rinsing razor system Pota Taylor 2006-05-16
6874141 Method of compiling schema mapping Shekhar N. Swamy 2005-03-29
$56,085,000
6823495 Mapping tool graphical user interface Nagender Vedula , Aditya Bhandarkar , Dharma Shukla 2004-11-23
$65,658,000
5450302 Exterior high intensity discharge illumination system and method for use Hanron T. Maase 1995-09-12
5438320 Personal alarm system — 1995-08-01
5326532 Apparatus for chemically processing toxic materials — 1994-07-05
$13,283,000
5275789 Apparatus for iodination/purification — 1994-01-04
$11,236,000
5206346 Method for iodination/purification — 1993-04-27
$10,796,000
D319309 Decontamination unit — 1991-08-20
5014587 Electronic piano tone circuit — 1991-05-14
$21,821,000
4683597 Drain plug Robert L. Taylor , Richard H. Taylor 1987-08-04
4568899 Ground fault accessory for a molded case circuit breaker William E. May , Peter Pang 1986-02-04
4552728 Decontamination apparatus — 1985-11-12
4353518 Cable retractor Richard J. Gonia 1982-10-12
$3,446,000
