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Kristen M. Summers — 36 Patents

IBM: 36 patents #2,703 of 70,183Top 4%
Takoma Park, MD: #1 of 110 inventorsTop 1%
Maryland: #446 of 35,612 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
Kristen M. Summers has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in July 2025. Kristen M. Summers ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Kristen M. Summers in Takoma Park, MD, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2017 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2022.peak 102017: 1 patents20172019: 4 patents20192020: 7 patents20202021: 7 patents20212022: 10 patents20222023: 5 patents20232025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12373650 Explainable passage classification John J. Thomas, Stephen A. Boxwell 2025-07-29
12321492 Cognitive iterative minimization of personally identifiable information in electronic documents Stephen A. Boxwell, Keith G. Frost, Kyle M. Brake, Stanley J. Vernier 2025-06-03
11755633 Entity search system Christopher F. Ackermann, Charles E. Beller, Michael Drzewucki 2023-09-12 $5,734,000
11720554 Iterative query expansion for document discovery Sean T. Thatcher, Edward G. Katz, Charles E. Beller, John A. Riendeau 2023-08-08 $10,751,000
11556758 Learning approximate translations of unfamiliar measurement units during deep question answering system training and usage Edward G. Katz, Charles E. Beller, Stephen A. Boxwell 2023-01-17 $4,393,000
11551006 Removal of personality signatures Charles E. Beller, Christopher F. Ackermann, David McQuenney, Rob High 2023-01-10 $10,956,000
11550794 Automated determination of document utility for a document corpus Charles E. Beller, William G. Dubyak, Palani Sakthi 2023-01-10 $10,956,000
11475339 Learning unfamiliar measurement units in a deep question answering system Charles E. Beller, Stephen A. Boxwell, Edward G. Katz 2022-10-18 $6,904,000
11468050 Learning user synonyms from sequenced query sessions Christopher F. Ackermann, Charles E. Beller, Stephen A. Boxwell, Edward G. Katz 2022-10-11 $33,715,000
11379706 Dispersed batch interaction with a question answering system Charles E. Beller, William G. Dubyak, Palani Sakthi 2022-07-05 $7,280,000
11334716 Document anonymization including selective token modification Charles E. Beller, Christopher F. Ackermann, David McQuenney, Rob High 2022-05-17 $6,899,000
11288320 Methods and systems for providing suggestions to complete query sessions Charles E. Beller, Christopher F. Ackermann, Rob High, David McQueeney 2022-03-29 $6,469,000
11243955 Latent token representations for passage and answer scoring in question answering systems Christopher F. Ackermann, Charles E. Beller, Stephen A. Boxwell, Edward G. Katz 2022-02-08 $4,353,000
11238074 Efficient grammatical property alignment for a question answering system Edward G. Katz, Stephen A. Boxwell, Charles E. Beller 2022-02-01 $4,586,000
11226972 Ranking collections of document passages associated with an entity name by relevance to a query Christopher F. Ackermann, Andrew Doyle, Michael Drzewucki, Charles E. Beller 2022-01-18 $5,274,000
11227113 Precision batch interaction with a question answering system Charles E. Beller, William G. Dubyak, Palani Sakthi 2022-01-18 $5,274,000
11222057 Methods and systems for generating descriptions utilizing extracted entity descriptors Christopher F. Ackermann, Charles E. Beller, Edward G. Katz 2022-01-11 $4,843,000
11170010 Methods and systems for iterative alias extraction Christopher F. Ackermann, Charles E. Beller, Edward G. Katz, Michael Drzewucki 2021-11-09 $5,376,000
11170660 Harvesting question/answer training data from watched hypotheses in a deep QA system Charles E. Beller, William G. Dubyak, Palani Sakthi 2021-11-09 $5,376,000
11170181 Document preparation with argumentation support from a deep question answering system Charles E. Beller, William G. Dubyak, Palani Sakthi, Robert A. Sheets 2021-11-09 $5,376,000
11163804 Corpus management by automatic categorization into functional domains to support faceted querying Charles E. Beller, William G. Dubyak, Palani Sakthi 2021-11-02 $2,126,000
11132358 Candidate name generation Charles E. Beller, Christopher F. Ackermann, Michael Drzewucki, Andrew Doyle 2021-09-28 $6,479,000
10936819 Query-directed discovery and alignment of collections of document passages for improving named entity disambiguation precision Charles E. Beller, Christopher F. Ackermann, Michael Drzewucki, Andrew Doyle, Edward G. Katz 2021-03-02 $2,720,000
10902342 System and method for scoring the geographic relevance of answers in a deep question answering system based on geographic context of an input question Edward G. Katz 2021-01-26 $1,788,000
10878033 Suggesting follow up questions from user behavior Mohamed N. Ahmed, Charles E. Beller, William G. Dubyak, Palani Sakthi, Andeep S. Toor 2020-12-29 $5,669,000