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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Zhangwei Xu — 30 Patents

Microsoft: 29 patents #907 of 40,388Top 3%
Redmond, WA: #312 of 8,547 inventorsTop 4%
Washington: #2,583 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #121,623 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time
Zhangwei Xu has been granted 30 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in October 2025. Zhangwei Xu ranks #121,623 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.9%). Patent records list Zhangwei Xu in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2012.peak 82009: 4 patents20092010: 2 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 8 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 4 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182020: 1 patents2024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12455769 Intelligent outage evaluation and insight management for monitoring and incident management systems Bingkun Hu, Vincent Joseph BLAS, Peiling Wu, Chaitanya Mishra, Igor FIGLIN +5 more 2025-10-28
12452154 Health model for cloud service health monitoring John Socha-Leialoha, Rajiv B. Kumar, Yusuf Tinwala, Yingnong Dang 2025-10-21
12184527 Health index of a service Yu Kang, Rulei Yu, Bo Qiao, Pu Zhao, Qingwei Lin +7 more 2024-12-31 $238,956,000
11962456 Automated cross-service diagnostics for large scale infrastructure cloud service providers Xiaofeng Gao, Cary L. Mitchell, Steve Lunsman, Tony Perez, Arvind NARASIMHAN 2024-04-16 $292,834,000
10750349 Device linking Min Liu, Anthony V. Discolo, Edmund Hon-Sum Lui, Kean Ee Lim, Ryan B. Elgram +7 more 2020-08-18 $106,576,000
9967730 Device linking Min Liu, Anthony V. Discolo, Edmund Hon-Sum Lui, Kean Ee Lim, Ryan B. Elgram +7 more 2018-05-08 $61,617,000
9579570 Device linking Min Liu, Anthony V. Discolo, Edmund Hon-Sum Lui, Kean Ee Lim, Ryan B. Elgram +7 more 2017-02-28 $30,997,000
9381427 Generic companion-messaging between media platforms John D. Elliott, Wyatt Douglas Jackson, Hansen Liou, Alain P. Maillot, Neil W. Black +2 more 2016-07-05 $33,937,000
9251317 Network video messaging Martin H. Hall, Mark J. McNulty, Guruprakash Bangalore Rao, Xiaofeng Gao, Fei Chen +2 more 2016-02-02 $33,611,000
8839236 Virtual machine support for metered computer usage Todd L. Carpenter, William J. Westerinen, Thomas G. Phillips, Curt A. Steeb, Alexander Frank 2014-09-16 $22,186,000
8751293 Delivering contextual advertising to a vehicle Martin H. Hall, Ali Khan, Mark J. McNulty 2014-06-10 $30,051,000
8713091 Network based JIT on a priori knowledge of a set of disparate clients Thomas G. Phillips, Martin H. Hall, Dana Lu Silverstein, Shawn Amelia Prenzlow, Martin Holladay 2014-04-29 $28,448,000
8656473 Linking web identity and access to devices Martin H. Hall, Ali Khan, Mark J. McNulty 2014-02-18 $42,189,000
8469816 Device linking Min Liu, Anthony V. Discolo, Edmund Hon-Sum Lui, Kean Ee Lim, Ryan B. Elgram +7 more 2013-06-25 $15,479,000
8429643 Secure upgrade of firmware update in constrained memory Rajagopal Venkatachalam 2013-04-23 $18,172,000
8311732 Navigation communication with self-identifying elements Ali Khan, Alexander T. Bussmann, Dhiresh Kumar, Gaurav Singhal, Martin H. Hall +1 more 2012-11-13 $20,195,000
8271779 Prepaid and subscription distribution services web methods Curt A. Steeb, Gokul P. Thirumalai, Jeffrey Alan Herold, Zeyong Xu 2012-09-18 $20,371,000
8244640 Packet schema for pay-as-you-go service provisioning Rajagopal Venkatachalam, Zeyong Xu 2012-08-14 $12,366,000
8214296 Disaggregated secure execution environment Alexander Frank, Curt A. Steeb, Isaac P. Ahdout, Richard Thompson, Thomas G. Phillips +1 more 2012-07-03 $17,614,000
8190923 Method to securely initialize, protect and recover system date/time Kurt Daverman, Rajagopal Venkatachalam, Isaac P. Ahdout, Ricardo Lopez-Barquilla 2012-05-29 $15,522,000
8176564 Special PC mode entered upon detection of undesired state Alexander Frank, Curt A. Steeb, Isaac P. Ahdout, James Duffus, Martin H. Hall +3 more 2012-05-08 $25,243,000
8151118 Master-slave security devices David Foster, Shon Schmidt, David Jaroslav Sebesta, Curt A. Steeb, William J. Westerinen +1 more 2012-04-03 $18,463,000
8112798 Hardware-aided software code measurement Alexander Frank, Curt A. Steeb 2012-02-07 $21,648,000
7987512 BIOS based secure execution environment Raja Venkatachalam, Ricardo Lopez-Barquilla, Curt A. Steeb 2011-07-26 $29,172,000
7694153 Changing product behavior in accordance with license Isaac P. Ahdout, Martin H. Hall 2010-04-06 $19,843,000