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Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)

Nasdaq: MSFT · Services-Prepackaged Software · Redmond, WA · filing with the SEC since 1994
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US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

55,591 patents granted to the 10 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Microsoft Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
55,591
51,461 utility, 4,103 design, 26 reissue, 1 plant, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1,805
Against 1,776 in 2024 and 1,870 in 2023
Applications published
57,931
1,839 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
10
its own name, its holding company, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Computer technology5,836
Digital communication1,993
Audio-visual technology567
IT methods for management217
Optics203
Furniture, games152
Telecommunications148
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy112
Measurement85
Semiconductors81
Basic communication processes76
Medical technology35
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name10 counted
Microsoft Corporation its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 6 more under the same name are not counted (printed in FR, printed in JP, printed in TJ)
30,260 granted
31,910 published
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC its holding company
US, as the owner printed on each patent; a holding company under the name MICROSOFT CORP. 2 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CA)
24,631 granted
7,447 published
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC its holding company
named as the applicant on its applications, in US; a holding company under the name MICROSOFT CORP. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CN)
0 granted
15,712 published
Microsoft Corporation its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in IT)
0 granted
1,818 published
LinkedIn Corporation a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
386 granted
280 published
LinkedIn Corporation a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
523 published
Activision Publishing, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
313 granted
60 published
Activision Publishing, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
180 published
Microsoft Patent Licensing, LLC its holding company
US, as the owner printed on each patent; a holding company under the name MICROSOFT CORP
1 granted
0 published
Microsoft Technologies Licensing, LLC its holding company
named as the applicant on its applications, in US; a holding company under the name MICROSOFT CORP
0 granted
1 published
Names not counted (1)
MICROSOFT CORP
Most of its patents print IT; this name counts in US. 0 granted and 1 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 30, 202512,513,753Device pairing techniquesDigital communicationMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 30, 202512,513,728Optimization of guard bands in multi-numerology 5G networksDigital communicationMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 30, 202512,513,357Systems and methods for group capture of interactive softwareDigital communicationMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 30, 202512,513,340Reducing latency in video encoding and decodingAudio-visual technologyMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 30, 202512,513,339Reducing latency in video encoding and decodingAudio-visual technologyMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 30, 202512,513,336Constraints and unit types to simplify video random accessAudio-visual technologyMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 30, 202512,513,335Constraints and unit types to simplify video random accessAudio-visual technologyMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 30, 202512,513,334Constraints and unit types to simplify video random accessAudio-visual technologyMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 30, 202512,513,245Voicemail handlingTelecommunicationsMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 30, 202512,513,195Secure cross-tenant accessDigital communicationMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 25, 20252025/0392545PROVIDING COMPATIBLE NETWORK RESOURCES TO PROGRAM COMPONENTS EXECUTING IN A VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTDigital communicationMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 25, 20252025/0392506ASSIGNING A RELEVANCE SCORE TO A NEW METRIC USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSINGDigital communicationMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 25, 20252025/0391190TEXT DETECTION IN VIDEOSComputer technologyMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 25, 20252025/0391083DYNAMIC 3D SCENE GENERATIONComputer technologyMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 25, 20252025/0390895ATTENTION-BASED DATA-DRIVEN ATTRIBUTIONIT methods for managementMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 25, 20252025/0390762CODES TO DETECT INSERTION AND DELETION ERRORS IN A DENSE STORAGE MEDIUMBasic communication processesMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 25, 20252025/0390752HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC NORMALIZATION WITH AN AUTOENCODERComputer technologyMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 25, 20252025/0390745SELECTING A NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR A SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING PROBLEMComputer technologyMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 25, 20252025/0390668ARCHITECTURES FOR MODELING COMMENT AND EDIT RELATIONSComputer technologyMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Dec 25, 20252025/0390586VULNERABILITY REDUCTION FOR SYNTACTICALLY INCOMPLETE CODEComputer technologyMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 2,564 · Digital communication 659 · Audio-visual technology 278 · IT methods for management 91 · Telecommunications 67 · Optics 54.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

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