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Christopher A. Meek — 96 Patents

Microsoft: 94 patents #76 of 40,388Top 1%
MIMicosoft: 1 patents #1 of 47Top 3%
Kirkland, WA: #19 of 3,517 inventorsTop 1%
Washington: #307 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #15,731 of 4,157,543Top 1%
96 Patents All Time
Christopher A. Meek has been granted 96 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in May 2025. Christopher A. Meek ranks #15,731 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.38%). Patent records list Christopher A. Meek in Kirkland, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2010.peak 91999: 1 patents19992000: 2 patents2001: 3 patents2002: 4 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 7 patents2005: 1 patents20052006: 3 patents2007: 7 patents2008: 7 patents20082009: 8 patents2010: 9 patents2011: 6 patents20112012: 6 patents2013: 8 patents2014: 5 patents20142015: 7 patents2016: 3 patents2017: 1 patents20172019: 2 patents2023: 1 patents2024: 2 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 96 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12299058 Document re-finding system Gonzalo Alberto Ramos, Jin A. SUH, Shiqian Rachel NG, Haekyu PARK 2025-05-13
11900061 Intelligent interpretation of temporal expressions Pamela Bhattacharya, Oleksandr Polozov, Alex James Boyd 2024-02-13 $276,460,000
11887011 Schema augmentation system for exploratory research Gonzalo Alberto Ramos, Jin A. SUH, Shiqian Rachel NG, Napol RACHATASUMRIT 2024-01-30 $372,007,000
11847178 Document re-finding system Gonzalo Alberto Ramos, Jin A. SUH, Shiqian Rachel NG, Haekyu PARK 2023-12-19 $382,128,000
10482482 Predicting behavior using features derived from statistical information Mikhail Bilenko, Ran Gilad-Bachrach, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Royzner 2019-11-19 $64,062,000
10262272 Active machine learning David M. Chickering, Patrice Y. Simard, Rishabh Krishnan Iyer 2019-04-16 $47,495,000
9652614 Application reputation service Geoff Hulten, Paul Steve Rehfuss, Ron Franczyk, John L. Scarrow, Andrew Newman 2017-05-16 $30,274,000
9508040 Predictive pre-launch for applications Ahmad Bilal, Mehmet Iyigun, Milos Kralj, Christopher Peter Kleynhans, Hari R. Pulapaka +6 more 2016-11-29 $32,020,000
9396269 Search engine that identifies and uses social networks in communications, retrieval, and electronic commerce Eric J. Horvitz, Joshua T. Goodman, Gary W. Flake, Oliver Hurst-Hiller, Anoop Gupta +6 more 2016-07-19 $45,858,000
9283476 Information collection during game play Anton Mityagin, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Asela J. Gunawardana, David M. Chickering, Paul Nathan Bennett +1 more 2016-03-15 $43,879,000
9183173 Learning element weighting for similarity measures Wen-tau Yih, Hannaneh Hajishirzi 2015-11-10 $38,752,000
9141704 Data management in social networks Eric J. Horvitz, Joshua T. Goodman, Gary W. Flake, Oliver Hurst-Hiller, Anoop Gupta +6 more 2015-09-22 $38,392,000
9047560 Using event stream data to create a decision graph representing a race participant where leaf nodes comprise rates defining a speed of the race participant in a race simulation Asela J. Gunawardana, Puyang Xu 2015-06-02 $51,533,000
8996515 Consistent phrase relevance measures Wen-tau Yih 2015-03-31 $24,045,000
8984292 Keyed human interactive proof players Jesper Lind, Darko Kirovski 2015-03-17 $21,315,000
8978144 Automatic construction of human interaction proof engines Geoffrey J. Hulten, Patrice Y. Simard, Darko Kirovski, Jesper Lind 2015-03-10 $31,260,000
8966096 Device-pairing by reading an address provided in device-readable form Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Curtis N. von Veh, Darko Kirovski 2015-02-24 $23,623,000
8892498 Forecasting a future event in an event stream Asela Jeevaka Ranaweera Guanwardana, Ankur Parikh 2014-11-18 $23,153,000
8769702 Application reputation service Geoff Hulten, Steve Rehfuss, Ron Franczyk, John L. Scarrow, Andrew Newman 2014-07-01 $33,016,000
8739276 Automatic construction of human interaction proof engines Geoffrey J. Hulten, Patrice Y. Simard, Darko Kirovski, Jesper Lind 2014-05-27 $33,362,000
8688417 Detecting impact of extrinsic events on a time series Alex Bocharov, Bo Thiesson 2014-04-01 $35,800,000
8626136 Architecture for user- and context-specific prefetching and caching of information on portable devices Raymond E. Ozzie, Eric J. Horvitz, William H. Gates, III, Joshua T. Goodman, Susan T. Dumais +4 more 2014-01-07 $21,622,000
8605089 Data visualization using association networks David E. Heckerman 2013-12-10 $31,292,000
8589233 Arbitrage broker for online advertising exchange Gary W. Flake, Brett D. Brewer, David M. Chickering, Jody D. Biggs, Ewa Dominowska +1 more 2013-11-19 $34,230,000
8533049 Value add broker for federated advertising exchange Gary W. Flake, Brett D. Brewer, David M. Chickering, Jody D. Biggs, Ewa Dominowska +1 more 2013-09-10 $23,590,000