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Michael Curtiss — 40 Patents

Google: 28 patents #600 of 22,993Top 3%
Meta: 10 patents #684 of 6,845Top 10%
Palo Alto, CA: #508 of 9,675 inventorsTop 6%
California: #11,486 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Michael Curtiss has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in April 2021. Michael Curtiss ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Michael Curtiss in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10983973 Database sharding with incorporated updates Sandhya Kunnatur, Soren Lassen, Pilip Pronin 2021-04-20 $240,584,000
10977229 Database sharding with update layer Sandhya Kunnatur, Soren Lassen, Pilip Pronin 2021-04-13 $167,872,000
10496652 Methods and apparatus for ranking documents Krishna Bharat, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Amitabh Singhal, Michael Schmitt 2019-12-03 $34,836,000
10459926 Systems and methods for improving the ranking of news articles Krishna Bharat, Michael Schmitt 2019-10-29 $29,755,000
10417222 Using inverse operators for queries Rajat Raina, Kihyuk Hong, Sriram Sankar, Kittipat Virochsiri, Chaitanya Mishra 2019-09-17 $117,271,000
10389723 Systems and methods for monetizing subscription and archival news content Krishna Bharat, Michael Schmitt, Marissa Mayer, Kerah Cottrell, Hong Zhou +1 more 2019-08-20 $28,105,000
10387507 Systems and methods for personalizing aggregated news content Krishna Bharat, Michael Schmitt, Marissa Mayer, Kerah Cottrell, Brian D. Rakowski +1 more 2019-08-20 $28,105,000
10255318 Sampling a set of data Tudor Bosman 2019-04-09 $116,158,000
10140338 Filtering structured search queries based on privacy settings Yofay Kari Lee, Michael Benjamin Cohen, Maxime Boucher, Alisson Gusatti Azzolini, Xiao Li +2 more 2018-11-27 $131,801,000
10095752 Methods and apparatus for clustering news online content based on content freshness and quality of content source Michael Schmitt, Krishna Bharat 2018-10-09 $29,422,000
10061846 Extract operator Soren Lassen, Sandhya Kunnatur 2018-08-28 $134,681,000
9760636 Systems and methods for browsing historical content Krishna Bharat, Duane Scott Hess, Kerah Cottrell, Marissa Mayer 2017-09-12 $19,142,000
9690826 Using inverse operators for queries Rajat Raina, Kihyuk Hong, Sriram Sankar, Kittipat Virochsiri, Chaitanya Mishra 2017-06-27 $66,054,000
9613061 Image selection for news search Hong Zhou, Srdjan Mitrovic, Krishna Bharat, Michael Schmitt 2017-04-04 $15,389,000
9495354 Using inverse operators for queries on online social networks Rajat Raina, Kihyuk Hong, Sriram Sankar, Kittipat Virochsiri, Chaitanya Mishra 2016-11-15 $271,825,000
9477714 Methods and apparatus for ranking documents Krishna Bharat, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Amitabh Singhal, Michael Schmitt 2016-10-25 $11,956,000
9367536 Using inverse operators for queries on online social networks Rajat Raina, Kihyuk Hong, Sriram Sankar, Kittipat Virochsiri, Chaitanya Mishra 2016-06-14 $155,745,000
9361369 Method and apparatus for clustering news online content based on content freshness and quality of content source Krishna Bharat, Michael Schmitt 2016-06-07 $23,083,000
9342546 Extract operator Soren Lassen, Sandhya Kunnatur 2016-05-17
9153149 Illuminated hand-held road sign 2015-10-06
9141703 Systems and methods for browsing historical content Krishna Bharat, Duane Scott Hess, Kerah Cottrell, Marissa Mayer 2015-09-22 $16,694,000
9037575 Systems and methods for improving the ranking of news articles Krishna Bharat, Michael Schmitt 2015-05-19 $12,662,000
8935271 Extract operator Soren Lassen, Sandhya Kunnatur 2015-01-13 $132,641,000
8843479 Methods and apparatus for ranking documents Krishna Bharat, Jeff Dean, Amitabh Singhal, Michael Schmitt 2014-09-23 $21,195,000
8805867 Query rewriting with entity detection Hong Zhou, Krishna Bharat, Michael Schmitt, Marissa Mayer 2014-08-12 $15,552,000