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Gerhard Backfried — 2 Patents

IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
Purkersdorf, AT: #12 of 45 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #1,709,992 of 4,157,543Top 45%
2 Patents All Time
Gerhard Backfried has been granted 2 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in October 2004. Gerhard Backfried ranks #1,709,992 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 41.1%). Patent records list Gerhard Backfried in Purkersdorf, AT.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–2 of 2 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6801893 Method and apparatus for expanding the vocabulary of a speech system Hubert Crepy 2004-10-05 $8,713,000
6327561 Customized tokenization of domain specific text via rules corresponding to a speech recognition vocabulary Maria E. Smith, Bernard John Grainger, Hubert Crepy, Martin Herzog 2001-12-04 $28,474,000