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Microsoft Patent Portfolio Analysis

Read selected Microsoft publications across Cloud resource scheduling, Code completion, Container security.

Partial name or date coverage · counts are lower boundsData as of 2026-10-29Data scope

Search jurisdictions: Worldwide
Applicant-name basis: Dataset-harmonized assignees (not verified current owners)
Source search matches: 7,140; Published 2025-01-01 — 2025-12-31 · Source Google Patents
Applicant names included in these statistics: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Publication dates collected: Not recorded in this snapshot
Reviewed names not covered: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.

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Collected patent publications

≥7,140docs

595 per month · peak 2025-10 (689)

Empty dashed outlines are uncollected periods, not zero. Dashed bars have partial name or date coverage.

Key findings

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01FactCloud scheduling and code completion address different processing layersThe scheduling example operates on AI workloads and resource tickets; the completion example uses a transformer to generate source-code candidates. The snippets provide no comparable efficiency results.
02FactDeployment requests provide an entry point for container analysisThe security snippet starts with a deployment request, then collects data and extracts features. Decision thresholds, detection performance and subsequent actions have not been reviewed.

01Key figures

Applications: 6,891; By application number; publication and grant count once
Invention: 6,681; 97% of applications
Utility model: 0; 0% of applications
Patent families: 4,768; By the source family ID
Green technology: —; The source has no CPC codes
Concentration: 0.59HHI; Sum of squared field shares; higher is more concentrated

INSIGHT 01Fact

73%

73% of applications are in Computer technology

4,986 applications in this field, 3,890 of them in IPC G06F (Data processing) — the main axis of the portfolio.

Method: Field applications ÷ applications with IPC

02Technology landscape

6,876 applications with IPC codes are mapped to 35 fields using the WIPO IPC–Technology Concordance; area is the number of applications. Select a tile to see its IPC subclasses. An application can belong to several fields.

Electrical engineering
Instruments

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03Rhythm

Publications per month in each field; brighter cells mean more. It shows which directions surge in particular months.

This chart covers collected documents published from 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31. Examination and publication processes affect this timing; it does not directly measure R&D investment in the same period.

Cells count publications only within the collected names and dates. Missing periods are not shown; the company portfolio is incomplete.
Technology field	25-01	25-02	25-03	25-04	25-05	25-06	25-07	25-08	25-09	25-10	25-11	25-12
Computer technology	403	361	446	465	396	355	465	392	433	485	419	513
Digital communication	125	127	129	151	108	103	143	141	121	155	121	174
Audio-visual technology	46	41	59	61	72	60	100	52	67	74	45	67
IT methods for management	24	20	20	23	21	22	39	14	24	23	25	40
Optics	17	18	26	29	20	18	29	22	28	20	18	17
Telecommunications	7	14	20	17	13	18	26	21	25	26	24	16
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy	11	12	7	12	10	6	19	18	16	11	17	10
Measurement	9	9	17	19	12	9	15	11	11	16	15	10

Filing years of the collected applications

Documents in the current publication window are deduplicated by application number and grouped by filing year. These are not the company's complete annual filings; older applications may only be published or granted within this window.

20091
20111
20121
201320
20149
201537
201622
201742
201887
2019245
2020361
2021461
2022844
20232,129
20241,884
2025747Publication lag may still apply

Invention applications are generally published about 18 months after filing, or priority where claimed, and may be published earlier. Flags are estimated as of 2026-10-29. An unflagged year is still not necessarily complete; these counts cannot establish growth or contraction in R&D.

Multi-year evolution · With a longer collection window, this becomes a yearly view that marks the fastest-growing and shrinking fields.

04Strategy profile

Four reproducible structural ratios, with the other published companies on the same scale. Entity scopes and windows can differ, so read relative positions only — this is not a ranking.

Concentration

0.59

0.000.94

Position 8 of 20 published companies.

Method: Sum of squared field shares

Utility model share

0%33%

Position 9 of 20 published companies.

Method: Utility model documents ÷ all documents

Green technology share

—

The source has no CPC codes, so this cannot be computed.

Method: Documents with CPC Y02 ÷ documents with CPC

Manufacturing and inspection share

2.5%

0%50%

Position 12 of 20 published companies.

Method: Applications in measurement, chemical engineering, handling and machine tools ÷ all applications

05Collaboration

Organisations that filed jointly with the collected entities; line weight represents joint applications. Name-based candidates and reviewed relationships are labeled separately. Co-applications alone do not prove ownership.

Microsoft6,891

MICROSOFT CORP6Other co-applicant · relationship unverified

NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC5Other co-applicant · relationship unverified

ZHANG DONGMEI5Other co-applicant · relationship unverified

CHEN XIA3Other co-applicant · relationship unverified

CUI DEHUA3Other co-applicant · relationship unverified

HUANG CONGRUI3Other co-applicant · relationship unverified

LI JINYU3Other co-applicant · relationship unverified

LIN QINGWEI3Other co-applicant · relationship unverified

LIU SHUJIE3Other co-applicant · relationship unverified

WANG LU3Other co-applicant · relationship unverified

Possible affiliation is a review lead only. Co-applicants without a review record are not automatically group members or external partners, and their independent filings are not added to these statistics.

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06Entities and scope

Entity review and data coverage are separate facts. This list shows the current entity configuration, evidence and relationship dates, matched name by name against this snapshot.

Filters change only the entity list below, not the statistics. A complete group snapshot is not available to switch to on this page.

Review statusName coverage in this snapshot

Showing 1 of 1 entities

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

SubsidiaryVerifiedSome names covered

Names collected in this snapshot: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC
Names outside this snapshot: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC · Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc.
Recorded relationship dates: Not recorded — Not recorded

Microsoft 官方确认其为专利管理子公司；列表名称的大小写及末尾句点差异按同一法人处理。

Review evidence

Relationship dates help interpret renaming, acquisitions and joint ventures. Missing dates do not establish an indefinite relationship or verify the current patent owner.

07Observations

Written by editors after reading the patent texts and company materials. Verified facts and inferences are labeled, each with evidence and limits.

Technology themes and evidence

Select a theme to filter reviewed patents and observations that cite them. Counts are editorial samples only; one patent may belong to several themes. They do not describe the full portfolio distribution.

Themes describe the technical directions in these samples. Links to adoption in specific products, commercialization or commercial value have not been established.

Showing 3 sample patents · 2 linked observations

01
Verified fact
Cloud scheduling and code completion address different processing layers
The scheduling example operates on AI workloads and resource tickets; the completion example uses a transformer to generate source-code candidates. The snippets provide no comparable efficiency results.
Evidence
US12353908B2 US12229533B2
Limits
- Based on captured abstracts, without a completed claim review; not evidence of portfolio-wide distribution, current ownership or product adoption.
02
Verified fact
Deployment requests provide an entry point for container analysis
The security snippet starts with a deployment request, then collects data and extracts features. Decision thresholds, detection performance and subsequent actions have not been reviewed.
Evidence
US12265616B2
Limits
- Based on captured abstracts, without a completed claim review; not evidence of portfolio-wide distribution, current ownership or product adoption.

Reading samples

Hand-picked documents that illustrate technology themes — not a ranking of core patents and not representative of the whole.

US12353908B2

Scheduler for planet-scale computing system

The snippet describes a global scheduler receiving AI workloads associated with resource-ticket values and distributing them across cloud nodes. The complete balancing rule has not been reviewed.

Bibliography and claim evidence

Applicants: Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc.
Application date: 2021-06-28
Publication date: 2025-07-08
English summary of cited claim evidence: Verifiable claim evidence is not available. This reading uses only the abstract and other listed material; it does not establish the scope of protection.
Legal status: Legal status is unverified. The applicant name follows the search-result display and does not establish current ownership.

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US12229533B2

Multi-lingual line-of-code completion system

The snippet describes a neural transformer generating candidate completions for a source-code line and training with a conditional language-modeling objective. The dataset description is truncated.

Bibliography and claim evidence

Applicants: Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc
Application date: 2023-08-09
Publication date: 2025-02-18
English summary of cited claim evidence: Verifiable claim evidence is not available. This reading uses only the abstract and other listed material; it does not establish the scope of protection.
Legal status: Legal status is unverified. The applicant name follows the search-result display and does not establish current ownership.

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US12265616B2

Detect anomalous container deployment at a container orchestration service

The snippet describes detecting a container-deployment request, collecting related data and extracting deployment features. It does not establish the complete anomaly-detection rule.

Bibliography and claim evidence

Applicants: Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc
Application date: 2021-11-29
Publication date: 2025-04-01
English summary of cited claim evidence: Verifiable claim evidence is not available. This reading uses only the abstract and other listed material; it does not establish the scope of protection.
Legal status: Legal status is unverified. The applicant name follows the search-result display and does not establish current ownership.

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08Publication jurisdictions

24 publication offices · 7,140 documents

Counts use the publication office of each collected document, retaining publications from the same family in different jurisdictions. This is not a map of complete families, granted or active rights; WO and EP denote international and European publication routes.

USUnited States3,614
EPEuropean Patent Office publication2,122
WOPCT international publication608
CNChina499
TWTaiwan102
KRSouth Korea76
MXMexico48
JPJapan16

Show 16 more jurisdictions

AUAustralia15
ILIsrael9
LULuxembourg8
MYMalaysia8
ESSpain3
CACanada2
DEGermany1
DKDenmark1
GBUnited Kingdom1
HRCroatia1
HUHungary1
LTLithuania1
PLPoland1
PTPortugal1
RSSerbia1
ZASouth Africa1

09Documents

153 published documentsClear filtersNewest first

EP3746743B1
Invention grant
Object and location tracking with a graph-of-graphs
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Digital communicationMeasurement
2025-12-31
EP4644841A3
Invention publication
Conversational navigation routing based on user preferences
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Measurement
2025-12-31
US2025389619A1
Invention publication
Automated inspection and cleaning of optical fiber components
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
OpticsMeasurementChemical engineeringHandling
2025-12-25
EP3844527B1
Invention grant
Time-of-flight rgb-ir image sensor
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Audio-visual technologySemiconductorsMeasurement
2025-12-24
EP4666106A1
Invention publication
Pose detection using multi-chirp fmcw radar
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Computer technologyOpticsMeasurement
2025-12-24
US2025384168A1
Invention publication
State clearing of internal memory and flip-flops of a system using built-in test and scan circuitry
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Computer technologyMeasurement
2025-12-18
WO2025259328A1
Invention publication
State clearing of internal memory and flip-flops of a system using built-in test and scan circuitry
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Computer technologyMeasurement
2025-12-18
WO2025254710A1
Invention publication
Wireless imaging based on metasurface
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Measurement
2025-12-11
EP4150369B1
Invention grant
Phase unwrapping with multiple wavelengths on a flat torus
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Measurement
2025-12-10
CN121069379A
Invention publication
Wireless imaging based on super surface
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Measurement
2025-12-05
US2025362122A1
Invention publication
Hybrid wire localization length measurement device
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Computer technologyMeasurement
2025-11-27
US2025365495A1
Invention publication
Ultra wide band augmented imaging for improved entity identification
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Audio-visual technologyMeasurement
2025-11-27
EP3874243B1
Invention grant
Hyper-spectral camera comprising tunable spectral illuminator
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Audio-visual technologyMeasurement
2025-11-26
EP4107546B1
Invention grant
Selective power efficient three-dimensional imaging
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Measurement
2025-11-26
US12481376B2
Invention grant
Configuring a mouse device through pressure detection
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Computer technologyMeasurement
2025-11-25
CN120981819A
Invention publication
Joint parity measurement of Maastricht Treaty Lana zero modes in the presence of quasi-particle poisoning
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Computer technologyMeasurement
2025-11-18
US12474401B2
Invention grant
Systems and methods for isolating faults in die-to-die interconnects
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Measurement
2025-11-18
EP4388278B1
Invention grant
Facade biasing for reflection correction in photogrammetric reconstruction
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Computer technologyMeasurement
2025-11-12
US12467755B2
Invention grant
Indoor location-based service
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Digital communicationMeasurement
2025-11-11
US12467757B2
Invention grant
Identifying and resolving prohibited maneuvers in routes generated by a routing system
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Measurement
2025-11-11

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10Method and sources

Counting units

Publications are deduplicated by publication number; applications by application number, so a publication and its grant count once; families by the source family ID. Technology fields are derived automatically from IPC codes using the WIPO IPC–Technology Concordance (March 2026), without manual or AI labeling.

Publication or grant documents do not establish current rights. Check legal status and current owners with the relevant patent office.

Entity scope

These statistics use only the applicant names and publication dates collected for this snapshot. They do not represent the full company or group portfolio.

Search jurisdictions: Worldwide
Applicant-name basis: Dataset-harmonized assignees (not verified current owners)
Applicant names included in these statistics: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Reviewed names not covered: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.

Current entity configuration and review evidence

The reviewed entities and aliases below describe the current company configuration. Only names listed above are covered by this snapshot.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Configured aliases: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC · Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc.

Original review note: Microsoft 官方确认其为专利管理子公司；列表名称的大小写及末尾句点差异按同一法人处理。

Review evidence

Data sources

Google Patents · PartialPublished 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · retrieved 2026-10-29 · 7,140 included · 0 out of scopeSource and terms

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Microsoft Patent Portfolio Analysis

Key findings

01Key figures

73% of applications are in Computer technology

02Technology landscape

03Rhythm

Filing years of the collected applications

04Strategy profile

Concentration

Utility model share

Green technology share

Manufacturing and inspection share

05Collaboration

06Entities and scope

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

07Observations

Technology themes and evidence

Cloud scheduling and code completion address different processing layers

Deployment requests provide an entry point for container analysis

Reading samples

Scheduler for planet-scale computing system

Multi-lingual line-of-code completion system

Detect anomalous container deployment at a container orchestration service

08Publication jurisdictions

09Documents

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10Method and sources

Counting units

Entity scope

Data sources