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Michael Williamson — 50 Patents

VIVirnetx: 45 patents #3 of 10Top 30%
SIScience Applications International: 4 patents #62 of 431Top 15%
South Riding, VA: #1 of 70 inventorsTop 2%
Virginia: #279 of 34,511 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #53,743 of 4,157,543Top 2%
50 Patents All Time
Michael Williamson has been granted 50 US patents while listed as an inventor at Virnetx. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in July 2025. Michael Williamson ranks #53,743 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.3%). Patent records list Michael Williamson in South Riding, VA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2013.peak 92002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092011: 5 patents2013: 9 patents20132014: 4 patents2015: 9 patents20152016: 4 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 3 patents20192020: 1 patents2022: 3 patents20222024: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 50 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12355723 Dynamic VPN address allocation Robert Dunham Short, III, Victor Larson 2025-07-08
11924202 User authenticated encrypted communication link Robert Dunham Short, III, Nathaniel Jackson Short 2024-03-05 $463,000
11290420 Dynamic VPN address allocation Robert Dunham Short, III, Victor Larson 2022-03-29 $1,476,000
11245692 User authenticated encrypted communication link Robert Dunham Short, III, Nathaniel Jackson Short 2022-02-08 $1,755,000
11240235 User authenticated encrypted communication link Robert Dunham Short, III, Nathaniel Jackson Short 2022-02-01 $1,738,000
10608986 Dynamic VPN address allocation Robert Dunham Short, III, Victor Larson 2020-03-31 $6,334,000
10511573 Agile network protocol for secure communications using secure domain names Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmund Colby Munger 2019-12-17 $7,843,000
10498728 User authenticated encrypted communication link Robert Dunham Short, III, Nathaniel Jackson Short 2019-12-03 $7,303,000
10187387 Method for establishing connection between devices Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmund Colby Munger 2019-01-22 $10,016,000
9967240 Agile network protocol for secure communications using secure domain names Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmund Colby Munger 2018-05-08 $3,545,000
9860283 Agile network protocol for secure video communications with assured system availability Edmund Colby Munger, Douglas Charles Schmidt, Robert Dunham Short, III, Victor Larson 2018-01-02 $4,746,000
9819649 System and method employing an agile network protocol for secure communications using secure domain names Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmund Colby Munger 2017-11-14 $5,855,000
9521130 User authenticated encrypted communication link Robert Dunham Short, III, Nathaniel Jackson Short 2016-12-13 $4,092,000
9413766 Method for establishing connection between devices Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmund Colby Munger 2016-08-09 $4,086,000
9386000 System and method for establishing a communication link Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmund Colby Munger 2016-07-05 $5,533,000
9374346 Agile network protocol for secure communications using secure domain names Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmund Colby Munger 2016-06-21 $6,005,000
9100375 System and method employing an agile network protocol for secure communications using secure domain names Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmond Colby Munger 2015-08-04 $4,579,000
9094399 Method for establishing secure communication link between computers of virtual private network Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmund Colby Munger 2015-07-28 $4,437,000
9077694 Agile network protocol for secure communications using secure domain names Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmund Colby Munger 2015-07-07 $2,118,000
9077695 System and method for establishing an encrypted communication link based on IP address lookup requests Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmund Colby Munger 2015-07-07 $2,118,000
9038163 Systems and methods for connecting network devices over communication network Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmund Colby Munger 2015-05-19 $2,796,000
9037713 Agile network protocol for secure communications using secure domain names Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmund Colby Munger 2015-05-19 $2,796,000
9027116 Dynamic VPN address allocation Robert Dunham Short, III, Victor Larson 2015-05-05 $3,236,000
9027115 System and method for using a registered name to connect network devices with a link that uses encryption Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmund Colby Munger 2015-05-05 $3,236,000
8943201 Method for establishing encrypted channel Victor Larson, Robert Dunham Short, III, Edmund Colby Munger 2015-01-27 $5,796,000