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New Microsoft Patents

Microsoft files patents across Copilot and enterprise AI, Azure infrastructure, Windows, gaming, security, and productivity software.

Through the USPTO’s September 24, 2026 release, Patentlyze has covered 450 notable Microsoft patent applications, including 91 published in the last 30 days.

450

total filings tracked

91

published last 30 days

231

published last 90 days

This week's published patents

Week of September 24, 2026 · 19 filings covered · refreshes every week

Microsoft's 19 newest filings sort into three clusters:

Squeezing AI onto hardware. Filings cover running giant models on chips too small to hold them, running AI math efficiently on any processor, and knowing when a model has learned enough to stop training.
AI that reads context and acts. One system reads emails and web pages to find better deals, another predicts what you'd type into work forms, and a third detects when a meeting needs a brainstorm and runs it.
Interfaces and infrastructure. Other filings cover flipping phone screens by tilting the device, sending datacenter data through flashing light patterns, and blocking devices from reaching corporate authentication servers.

What Microsoft is working on

Based on Microsoft's activity across the watchlists we track · tracked programs only, not all of Microsoft's output

Gone quiet

what qualifies: no new Microsoft filing in 6 or more weeks while the race stays active

The foldable phone race

3 filings · quiet since Jul 23 while 4 rivals kept filing

Contested races

what qualifies: 3 or more companies in the same watchlist, Microsoft among them

The AR glasses race	12 of 312 · 10 companies
The AI chip wars	16 of 309 · 12 companies
The self-driving sensing race	2 of 259 · 10 companies
The AI photo editing race	4 of 194 · 14 companies
The AI guardrails race	17 of 158 · 14 companies
AI agents that act for you	13 of 151 · 15 companies

Microsoft patent questions, answered

Numbers pull live from the database, so answers never go stale

What is Microsoft working on right now?

Microsoft's tracked filings sit inside contested races, including The AR glasses race, The AI chip wars and The self-driving sensing race. The breakdown above shows each program’s filing count and latest activity.

How many patents did Microsoft publish this month?

0 Microsoft patent applications have published in October 2026 so far, after 91 in September. Patentlyze has covered 450 Microsoft filings since tracking began in May 2026.

Does a Microsoft patent mean the feature will launch?

No. A published application is not a product announcement. Companies file to protect options, and most patented ideas never ship in the form described. What filings do show is where Microsoft is spending research effort right now.

Where can I find Microsoft’s newest patents?

This page updates every week, when the USPTO publishes its new batch of applications. The newest Microsoft filings appear in the list below.

Top tech areas

Top inventors

Tamer SALMAN 6
Brian Scott KRABACH 6
Neelakantan SUNDARESAN 6
Roei Shlomo MENASHOF 6
Oren ISTRIN 6

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Recent highlights

Microsoft Patents a Way to Run Giant AI Models on Chips Too Small to Hold Them

September 24, 2026

Microsoft Patents a System That Turns Raw AI Data Into Plain-Language Reports

September 24, 2026

Microsoft Patents an AI System That Reads Your Emails and Web Pages to Find You Better Deals

September 24, 2026

All Microsoft filings

Microsoft Patents AI-Powered Message Drafting Based on User Profile Data

Microsoft Patents a Dynamic Compliance-Checking System for App Data Access

Microsoft Patents Automated Data Lineage Extraction from Database Query Logs

Microsoft Patents a Dense Context Engine That Primes AI With Company-Specific Knowledge

Microsoft Patents a Neural Prior Model for Photorealistic 3D Avatars

Microsoft Patents an AI System That Sorts Your Screenshots by What You Were Actually Doing

Microsoft Patents a CPU Performance Sampler That Avoids Polluting Its Own Cache

Microsoft Patents an AI System That Scores URLs Before Indexing Them

Microsoft Patents a Precision Glass Filament Drawing and Cutting Method

Microsoft Patents a System for Navigating Screenshot Interfaces with a Keyboard

Microsoft Patents a System That Backs Up Files Before You Delete Them

Microsoft Patents Synthetic DNA Tags That Log a Product's Entire Supply Chain Journey

Microsoft Patents a Layered Capacitance Sensor for Body-Proximity Antenna Detection

Microsoft Patents a Key Rotation System That Never Exposes Your Encrypted Data

Microsoft Patents a Security Engine That Blocks Files Based on Filename Tricks and Device History

Microsoft Patents a Multi-Layer Security Graph Engine for Cloud Incident Management

Microsoft Patents an AI System That Summarizes Meeting Content You Missed While Distracted

Microsoft Patents a System That Translates Classic ML Models Into Neural Networks

Microsoft Patents an AI Pipeline That Generates New Molecules From Chemical Neighbors

Microsoft Patents NVMe Command Batching for Faster Network Storage

Microsoft Patents an AI System That Figures Out What's Missing From Your Photos

Microsoft Patents a Middlebox That Unlocks Advanced 5G Radio Network Features

Microsoft Wants LLMs to Do Your Threat Modeling For You

Microsoft Patents an AI Prompt Security System That Profiles Both Models and Users

Microsoft Patents a System That Picks the Right AI Inference Trick for Every Job

Microsoft Patents AI Agent System for Searching Fragmented Cybersecurity Data

Microsoft Patents an AI System That Reads Security Logs and Summarizes Threats Automatically

Microsoft Patents a GPT Model That Remembers When — Not Just What — You Did

Microsoft Patents a Unified Contrastive Learning System for Vision AI

Microsoft Patents a Three-Phase AI System for Predicting Protein Shape Ensembles

Microsoft Patents Motion-Compensated Compression for 3D Point Cloud Video

Microsoft Patents Block-Based Floating-Point Compression Using Shared Exponents

Brainwaves Could Flag AI Errors the Moment They Appear

Microsoft Patents a Real-Time Risk-Scoring System for Human and Bot Identities

Microsoft Patents a Self-Reorganizing AI Agent Workflow System

Microsoft Patents Low-Cost Masking Circuit for Post-Quantum Cryptography