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George E. Heidorn — 9 Patents

Microsoft: 9 patents #4,919 of 40,388Top 15%
Bellevue, WA: #1,290 of 6,950 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #11,701 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
George E. Heidorn has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in June 2008. George E. Heidorn ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list George E. Heidorn in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1999.peak 31998: 1 patents19981999: 3 patents19992000: 2 patents20002001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents20022008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7383169 Method and system for compiling a lexical knowledge base Lucretia H. Vanderwende, Stephen D. Richardson, Karen Jensen, William B. Dolan 2008-06-03 $22,353,000
6360197 Method and apparatus for identifying erroneous characters in text Andi Wu 2002-03-19 $145,303,000
6246977 Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text and based on constrained expansion of query words John Messerly, Stephen D. Richardson, William B. Dolan, Karen Jensen 2001-06-12 $572,053,000
6161084 Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text by identifying hypernyms and indexing multiple tokenized semantic structures to a same passage of text John Messerly, Stephen D. Richardson, William B. Dolan, Karen Jensen 2000-12-12 $487,846,000
6076051 Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text John Messerly, Stephen D. Richardson, William B. Dolan, Karen Jensen 2000-06-13 $505,048,000
5999896 Method and system for identifying and resolving commonly confused words in a natural language parser Stephen D. Richardson 1999-12-07 $326,396,000
5966686 Method and system for computing semantic logical forms from syntax trees Karen Jensen 1999-10-12 $386,166,000
5963894 Method and system for bootstrapping statistical processing into a rule-based natural language parser Stephen D. Richardson 1999-10-05 $496,134,000
5752052 Method and system for bootstrapping statistical processing into a rule-based natural language parser Stephen D. Richardson 1998-05-12 $152,665,000

Frequent Collaborators

Stephen D. Richardson7 shared
Karen Jensen5 shared
William B. Dolan4 shared
John Messerly3 shared
Andi Wu1 shared
Lucretia H. Vanderwende1 shared

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