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Colin Andrew Cherry — 8 Patents

Microsoft: 6 patents #7,433 of 40,388Top 20%
Google: 2 patents #10,599 of 22,993Top 50%
Montréal, CA: #518 of 4,862 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Colin Andrew Cherry has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in September 2025. Colin Andrew Cherry ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Colin Andrew Cherry in Montréal, QC, CA.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2009.peak 22007: 1 patents20072009: 2 patents20092010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents20112014: 1 patents20142023: 1 patents20232025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12406659 Inverted projection for robust speech translation Dirk Ryan Padfield 2025-09-02
11562152 Re-translation for simultaneous, spoken-language machine translation Naveen Arivazhagan, Wolfgang Macherey, Te I, George Foster, Pallavi N. Baljekar 2023-01-24 $84,171,000
8909514 Unsupervised learning using global features, including for log-linear model word segmentation Kristina Toutanova, Hoifung Poon 2014-12-09 $33,808,000
8082143 Extracting treelet translation pairs Arul A. Menezes, Christopher Brian Quirk 2011-12-20 $15,735,000
7698124 Machine translation system incorporating syntactic dependency treelets into a statistical framework Arul A. Menezes, Christopher Brian Quirk 2010-04-13 $18,577,000
7577562 Extracting treelet translation pairs Arul A. Menezes, Christopher Brian Quirk 2009-08-18 $21,161,000
7505894 Order model for dependency structure Arul A. Menezes, Christopher Brian Quirk 2009-03-17 $13,616,000
7200550 Projecting dependencies to generate target language dependency structure Arul A. Menezes, Christopher Brian Quirk 2007-04-03 $35,945,000