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
Company patentsCloud computing, software and AI
COMPANY PATENT INTELLIGENCE
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.
≥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
See evidence and limits- 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
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
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.
| 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
0.590.000.94
Position 8 of 20 published companies.
Method: Sum of squared field shares
Utility model share
0%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.
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.
Review the entity list06Entities 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.
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 evidenceRelationship 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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
7,140 published documentsNewest first
- US12512102B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Providing prompts in speech recognition results in real time
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Computer technology
- US12512970B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Cryptographic key hierarchy
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Digital communication
- US12512999B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Asynchronously determining relational data integrity using cryptographic data structures
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Digital communicationComputer technology
- US12513083B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Expanding connection tables in smart switches in SDN networks
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Digital communication
- US12513093B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Dynamic cloud offloading
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Digital communication
- US12513120B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Method and system of providing security for anonymous autodiscover services
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Digital communication
- US12513126B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Distributed IPsec gateway
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Digital communicationComputer technology
- US12513132B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Web-app authentication and agent handoff
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Digital communication
- US12513190B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Snapshot for activity detection and threat analysis
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Digital communication
- US12513195B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Secure cross-tenant access
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Digital communication
- US12513245B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Voicemail handling
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
TelecommunicationsDigital communication
- US12513334B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Constraints and unit types to simplify video random access
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Audio-visual technology
- US12513335B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Constraints and unit types to simplify video random access
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Audio-visual technology
- US12513336B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Constraints and unit types to simplify video random access
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Audio-visual technology
- US12513339B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Reducing latency in video encoding and decoding
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Audio-visual technology
- US12513340B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Reducing latency in video encoding and decoding
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Audio-visual technology
- US12513357B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Systems and methods for group capture of interactive software
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Digital communication
- US12513728B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Optimization of guard bands in multi-numerology 5G networks
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Digital communication
- US12513753B2
Invention grant
2025-12-30Device pairing techniques
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Digital communicationComputer technology
- CN121219659A
Invention publication
2025-12-26Configurable mesh network node aggregation and related methods for mitigating voltage drop in Integrated Circuit (IC) chips
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
Computer technology
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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 evidenceData 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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