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Walter Chang — 109 Patents

Adobe: 106 patents #6 of 4,589Top 1%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
Oracle: 1 patents #8,339 of 14,854Top 60%
San Jose, CA: #216 of 32,062 inventorsTop 1%
California: #1,921 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #12,191 of 4,157,543Top 1%
109 Patents All Time
Walter Chang has been granted 109 US patents while listed as an inventor at Adobe. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in October 2025. Walter Chang ranks #12,191 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.29%). Patent records list Walter Chang in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 109 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12450441 Methods and systems for generating a semantic computation graph for understanding and grounding referring expressions Zhenbin Lin, Scott Cohen, Khoi Pham, Jonathan Brandt, Franck Dernoncourt 2025-10-21
12423948 Systems and methods for predicting long-tail colors in images Qiuyu Chen, Quan Tran, Kushal Kafle, Trung Bui, Franck Dernoncourt 2025-09-23
12399890 Scene graph modification based on natural language commands Quan Tran, Zhe Lin, Xuanli He, Trung Bui, Franck Dernoncourt 2025-08-26
12182524 Intent detection Jianguo Zhang, Trung Bui, Seunghyun Yoon, Xiang Chen, Quan Tran 2024-12-31 $132,245,000
12147771 Topical vector-quantized variational autoencoders for extractive summarization of video transcripts Sangwoo Cho, Franck Dernoncourt, Timothy Jeewun Ganter, Trung Bui, Nedim Lipka +3 more 2024-11-19 $166,671,000
12124508 Multimodal intent discovery system Adyasha Maharana, Quan Tran, Seunghyun Yoon, Franck Dernoncourt, Trung Bui 2024-10-22 $113,750,000
11972757 Digital media environment for conversational image editing and enhancement Frieder Ludwig Anton Ganz 2024-04-30 $169,018,000
11967128 Decompositional learning for color attribute prediction Qiuyu Chen, Quan Tran, Kushal Kafle, Trung Bui, Franck Dernoncourt 2024-04-23 $210,725,000
11941508 Dialog system with adaptive recurrent hopping and dual context encoding Quan Tran, Franck Dernoncourt 2024-03-26 $140,783,000
11893345 Inducing rich interaction structures between words for document-level event argument extraction Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Franck Dernoncourt, Quan Tran, Varun Manjunatha, Lidan Wang +2 more 2024-02-06 $198,715,000
11886494 Utilizing natural language processing automatically select objects in images Khoi Pham, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Zhihong Ding 2024-01-30 $108,356,000
11822868 Augmenting text with multimedia assets Emre Demiralp, Gavin Stuart Peter Miller, Grayson Squier Lang, Daicho Ito 2023-11-21 $112,524,000
11769111 Probabilistic language models for identifying sequential reading order of discontinuous text segments Trung Bui, Hung Bui, Shawn A. Gaither, Michael Kraley, Pranjal Daga 2023-09-26 $127,588,000
11755570 Memory-based neural network for question answering Quan Tran, Franck Dernoncourt 2023-09-12 $125,080,000
11681919 Automatically selecting query objects in digital images Khoi Pham, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Zhihong Ding 2023-06-20 $153,856,000
11657802 Utilizing a dynamic memory network for state tracking Seokhwan Kim 2023-05-23 $120,268,000
11636270 Methods and systems for generating a semantic computation graph for understanding and grounding referring expressions Zhe Lin, Scott Cohen, Khoi Pham, Jonathan Brandt, Franck Dernoncourt 2023-04-25 $103,491,000
11630952 Classifying terms from source texts using implicit and explicit class-recognition-machine-learning models Sean MacAvaney, Franck Dernoncourt, Seokhwan Kim, Doo Soon Kim, Chen Fang 2023-04-18 $74,749,000
11620457 Learning to fuse sentences with transformers for summarization Logan Lebanoff, Franck Dernoncourt, Doo Soon Kim, Lidan Wang 2023-04-04 $200,087,000
11594077 Generating modified digital images utilizing a dispersed multimodal selection model Trung Bui, Zhe Lin, Nham Van Le, Franck Dernoncourt 2023-02-28 $92,441,000
11574630 Digital media environment for conversational image editing and enhancement Frieder Ludwig Anton Ganz 2023-02-07 $95,798,000
11544456 Interpretable label-attentive encoder-decoder parser Khalil Mrini, Trung Bui, Quan Tran, Franck Dernoncourt 2023-01-03 $68,306,000
11514244 Structured knowledge modeling and extraction from images Scott Cohen, Brian Price, Mohamed Hamdy Mahmoud Abdelbaky Elhoseiny 2022-11-29 $154,084,000
11507551 Analytics based on scalable hierarchical categorization of web content Kenneth E. Feuerman, Shantanu Kumar, Ankit Bal 2022-11-22 $135,699,000
11468110 Utilizing natural language processing and multiple object detection models to automatically select objects in images Khoi Pham, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Zhihong Ding 2022-10-11 $74,587,000