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William R. Tipton — 40 Patents

Microsoft: 39 patents #537 of 40,388Top 2%
CPCalifornia Natural Products: 1 patents #4 of 7Top 60%
Seattle, WA: #432 of 21,776 inventorsTop 2%
Washington: #1,647 of 76,902 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
William R. Tipton has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in September 2020. William R. Tipton ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list William R. Tipton in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2012.peak 62006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092011: 3 patents2012: 6 patents20122013: 3 patents2014: 4 patents20142015: 4 patents2016: 4 patents20162017: 6 patents2018: 3 patents20182019: 3 patents2020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10768829 Opportunistic use of streams for storing data on a solid state device Rajsekhar Das, Scott Chao-Chueh Lee, Chesong Lee, Tristan C. Griffith, Erik Michael Schmidt 2020-09-08 $110,161,000
10509730 Aggregation of write traffic to a data store Shi Cong, Scott Brender, Karan Mehra, Darren G. Moss, Surendra Verma 2019-12-17 $65,953,000
10489240 Efficient detection of corrupt data Cornel Emilian Rat, Chesong Lee, Rajsekhar Das, Erik Gregory Hortsch, Arushi Aggarwal 2019-11-26 $66,445,000
10216437 Storage systems and aliased memory Surendra Verma, Landy Wang, Malcolm James Smith 2019-02-26 $52,330,000
10120573 Modular sequential writing of data to data storage devices Robin A. Alexander, Lee E. Prewitt, Laura Marie Caulfield 2018-11-06 $83,233,000
10102218 File system with per-extent checksums Chesong Lee, Raj Das, Cornel Emilian Rat 2018-10-16 $74,760,000
10067941 Extending file system namespace types Garret J. Buban, Jonathan M. Cargille 2018-09-04 $55,037,000
9836419 Efficient data movement within file system volumes Rajsekhar Das, Surendra Verma, Karan Mehra, Cornel Emilian Rat 2017-12-05 $43,576,000
9727575 File system with data block sharing Raj Das, Malcolm James Smith, Surendra Verma 2017-08-08 $27,985,000
9678689 Storage systems and aliased memory Surendra Verma, Landy Wang, Malcolm James Smith 2017-06-13 $40,131,000
9594798 File system with per-file selectable integrity Surendra Verma, Thomas J. Miller, Jonathan M. Cargille 2017-03-14 $33,293,000
9575678 Hierarchical allocation for file system storage device Thomas J. Miller, Jonathan M. Cargille, Surendra Verma 2017-02-21 $41,519,000
9547549 Handling file system corruption Rajsekhar Das, Malcolm James Smith, Shao-Chuan Wang, Surendra Verma 2017-01-17 $57,646,000
9448890 Aggregation of write traffic to a data store Shi Cong, Scott Brender, Karan Mehra, Darren G. Moss, Surendra Verma 2016-09-20 $35,738,000
9448869 Error detection for files Thomas J. Miller, Jonathan M. Cargille, Surendra Verma 2016-09-20 $35,738,000
9430160 Consistency without ordering dependency Thomas J. Miller, Jonathan M. Cargille, Surendra Verma 2016-08-30 $26,338,000
9361183 Aggregation of write traffic to a data store Shi Cong, Scott Brender, Karan Mehra, Darren G. Moss, Surendra Verma 2016-06-07 $39,883,000
9218135 Hierarchical allocation for file system storage device Thomas J. Miller, Jonathan M. Cargille, Surendra Verma 2015-12-22 $71,567,000
9183246 File system with per-file selectable integrity Surendra Verma, Thomas J. Miller, Jonathan M. Cargille 2015-11-10 $38,752,000
8996829 Consistency without ordering dependency Thomas J. Miller, Jonathan M. Cargille, Surendra Verma 2015-03-31 $24,045,000
8984233 Error detection for files Thomas J. Miller, Jonathan M. Cargille, Surendra Verma 2015-03-17 $21,315,000
8924356 Checkpoints for a file system Jonathan M. Cargille, Thomas J. Miller 2014-12-30 $26,363,000
8910192 Application programming interfaces for transacted file and registry operations Dana Groff, Jonathan M. Cargille, Surendra Verma, Andrew Herron, Dragos C. Sambotin +2 more 2014-12-09 $33,808,000
8793440 Error detection for files Thomas J. Miller, Jonathan M. Cargille, Surendra Verma 2014-07-29 $39,653,000
8694464 File system node updates Garret J. Buban, Jonathan M. Cargille 2014-04-08 $34,914,000