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Klaus Zechner — 27 Patents

ESEducational Testing Service: 27 patents #1 of 260Top 1%
Princeton, NJ: #159 of 2,186 inventorsTop 8%
New Jersey: #2,654 of 69,400 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Klaus Zechner has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Educational Testing Service. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in March 2025. Klaus Zechner ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Klaus Zechner in Princeton, NJ, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12249324 Targeted content feedback in spoken language learning and assessment Xinhao Wang, Christopher Hamill 2025-03-11
11854530 Automated content feedback generation system for non-native spontaneous speech Su-Youn Yoon, Ching-Ni Hsieh, Matthew Mulholland, Yuan-Fang Wang 2023-12-26
11475273 Deep convolutional neural networks for automated scoring of constructed responses Derrick Higgins, Lei Chen, Michael Heilman, Nitin Madnani 2022-10-18
11455999 Detection of off-topic spoken responses using machine learning Xinhao Wang, Su-Youn Yoon, Keelan Evanini, Yao Qian 2022-09-27
11417339 Detection of plagiarized spoken responses using machine learning Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, Yao Qian 2022-08-16
10867525 Systems and methods for generating recitation items Su-Youn Yoon, Lei Chen, Keelan Evanini 2020-12-15
10755595 Systems and methods for natural language processing for speech content scoring Lei Chen, Anastassia Loukina 2020-08-25
10628731 Deep convolutional neural networks for automated scoring of constructed responses Derrick Higgins, Lei Chen, Michael Heilman, Nitin Madnani 2020-04-21
10373047 Deep convolutional neural networks for automated scoring of constructed responses Derrick Higgins, Lei Chen, Michael Heilman, Nitin Madnani 2019-08-06
10283142 Processor-implemented systems and methods for determining sound quality Zhou Yu, Vikram Ramanarayanan, David Suendermann-Oeft, Xinhao Wang, Lei Chen +2 more 2019-05-07
9928754 Systems and methods for generating recitation items Su-Youn Yoon, Lei Chen, Keelan Evanini 2018-03-27
9799228 Systems and methods for natural language processing for speech content scoring Lei Chen, Anastassia Loukina 2017-10-24
9704413 Non-scorable response filters for speech scoring systems Su-Youn Yoon, Derrick Higgins, Shasha Xie, Je Hun Jeon, Keelan Evanini +2 more 2017-07-11
9652999 Computer-implemented systems and methods for estimating word accuracy for automatic speech recognition Su-Youn Yoon, Lei Chen 2017-05-16
9652991 Systems and methods for content scoring of spoken responses Xinhao Wang, Shasha Xie 2017-05-16
9449522 Systems and methods for evaluating difficulty of spoken text Su-Youn Yoon, Yeonsuk Cho, Diane Napolitano 2016-09-20
9361908 Computer-implemented systems and methods for scoring concatenated speech responses Su-Youn Yoon, Lei Chen, Shasha Xie, Xiaoming Xi, Chaitanya Ramineni 2016-06-07
9218339 Computer-implemented systems and methods for content scoring of spoken responses Keelan Evanini, Lei Chen, Shasha Xie, Wenting Xiong, Fei Huang +2 more 2015-12-22
9177558 Systems and methods for assessment of non-native spontaneous speech Lei Chen, Xiaoming Xi 2015-11-03
9087519 Computer-implemented systems and methods for evaluating prosodic features of speech Xiaoming Xi 2015-07-21
8990082 Non-scorable response filters for speech scoring systems Su-Youn Yoon, Derrick Higgins, Shasha Xie, Je Hun Jeon, Keelan Evanini 2015-03-24
8478597 Method and system for assessing pronunciation difficulties of non-native speakers Derrick Higgins, Yoko Futagi, Rene Lawless 2013-07-02
8392190 Systems and methods for assessment of non-native spontaneous speech Lei Chen, Xiaoming Xi 2013-03-05
8209173 Method and system for the automatic generation of speech features for scoring high entropy speech Isaac Bejar 2012-06-26
7840404 Method and system for using automatic generation of speech features to provide diagnostic feedback Xiaoming Xi, Isaac Bejar 2010-11-23