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Michael Sommers — 15 Patents

AOAol: 8 patents #53 of 634Top 9%
Microsoft: 3 patents #13,486 of 40,388Top 35%
BTBright Sun Technologies: 1 patents #4 of 30Top 15%
OAOath: 1 patents #403 of 1,117Top 40%
Verizon: 1 patents #5,014 of 6,238Top 85%
Leesburg, VA: #36 of 496 inventorsTop 8%
Virginia: #1,885 of 34,511 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Michael Sommers has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Aol. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in June 2023. Michael Sommers ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Michael Sommers in Leesburg, VA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11671504 Systems and methods for distributing published content among users of a social network Christopher Armstrong, Alan Keister, Lark Dunham, Jennifer Granito, Steven Greenberg +2 more 2023-06-06 $66,458,000
10855801 Indicating recent content publication activity by a user Christopher Armstrong, Alan Keister, Lark Dunham, Jennifer Granito, Steven Greenberg +2 more 2020-12-01 $114,800,000
10334071 Systems and methods for distributing published content among users of a social network Christopher Armstrong, Alan Keister, Lark Dunham, Jennifer Granito, Steven Greenberg +2 more 2019-06-25 $81,668,000
9442985 Systems and methods for providing culturally-relevant search results to users Anthony Wiegering, Harmannus Vandermolen, Karen Howe 2016-09-13 $91,816,000
8874586 Authority management for electronic searches Harmannus Vandermolen 2014-10-28 $413,269,000
8843519 Indicating recent content publication activity by a user Christopher Armstrong, Alan Keister, Lark Dunham, Jennifer Granito, Steven Greenberg +2 more 2014-09-23 $34,148,000
8700619 Systems and methods for providing culturally-relevant search results to users Anthony Wiegering, Harmannus Vandermolen, Karen Howe 2014-04-15 $182,699,000
8667521 Identifying events of interest within video content Harmannus Vandermolen, Anthony Wiegering, Scott J. Levine, Alexander Franco 2014-03-04
8504586 Indicating recent content publication activity by a user Christopher Armstrong, Alan Keister, Lark Dunham, Jennifer Granito, Steven Greenberg +2 more 2013-08-06 $23,592,000
8166061 Searching recent content publication activity Christopher Armstrong, Alan Keister, Lark Dunham, Jennifer Granito, Steven Greenberg +2 more 2012-04-24 $32,025,000
7987198 Indicating recent content publication activity by a user Christopher Armstrong, Alan Keister, Lark Dunham, Jennifer Granito, Steven Greenberg +2 more 2011-07-26 $31,861,000
7783592 Indicating recent content publication activity by a user Christopher Armstrong, Alan Keister, Lark Dunham, Jennifer Granito, Steven Greenberg +2 more 2010-08-24 $23,930,000
7624103 Culturally relevant search results Anthony Wiegering, Harmannus Vandermolen, Karen Howe 2009-11-24 $106,289,000
7624416 Identifying events of interest within video content Harmannus Vandermolen, Anthony Wiegering, Scott J. Levine, Alexander Franco 2009-11-24 $106,289,000
4382445 Physiological fluid shunt system and improvements therefor 1983-05-10