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Houdong Hu — 15 Patents

Microsoft: 15 patents #2,633 of 40,388Top 7%
Redmond, WA: #843 of 8,547 inventorsTop 10%
Washington: #6,706 of 76,902 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Houdong Hu has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2021 and the most recent in July 2025. Houdong Hu ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Houdong Hu in Redmond, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12346370 Visual intent triggering for visual search Xi Chen, Li-Hsin Huang, Jiapei Huang, Arun Sacheti, Linjun Yang +4 more 2025-07-01
12299029 Visual search services for multiple partners Yan Wang, Li-Hsin Huang, Arun Sacheti, Linjun Yang 2025-05-13
12266034 Techniques for abstract image generation from multimodal inputs with content appropriateness considerations Julia Gong, William Douglas Guyman 2025-04-01
12216705 System and method for attribute-based visual search over a computer communication network Li-Hsin Huang, Meenaz Merchant, Arun Sacheti 2025-02-04
11830056 Providing local recommendations based on images of consumable items Julia Gong, Jyotkumar Patel, Yale Song, Xuetao Yin, Xiujia Guo +1 more 2023-11-28 $298,085,000
11669558 Encoder using machine-trained term frequency weighting factors that produces a dense embedding vector Yan Wang, Ye Wu, Surendra Ulabala, Vishal Chhabilbhai Thakkar, Arun Sacheti 2023-06-06 $290,714,000
11372914 Image annotation Yokesh Kumar, Kuang-Huei Lee, Li-Hsin Huang, Arun Sacheti, Meenaz Merchant +3 more 2022-06-28 $238,915,000
11182408 Generating and applying an object-level relational index for images Kun Wu, Yiran Shen, Soudamini Sreepada, Arun Sacheti, Mithun Das Gupta +2 more 2021-11-23 $215,686,000
11120070 System and method for attribute-based visual search over a computer communication network Li-Hsin Huang, Meenaz Merchant, Arun Sacheti 2021-09-14 $197,424,000
11093560 Stacked cross-modal matching Kuang-Huei Lee, Gang Hua, Xi Chen, He Xiaodong 2021-08-17 $196,769,000
11074289 Multi-modal visual search pipeline for web scale images Yan Wang, Linjun Yang, Li-Hsin Huang, Xi Chen, Jiapei Huang +3 more 2021-07-27 $207,843,000
11036724 Interactive visual search engine Li-Hsin Huang, Meenaz Merchant, Arun Sacheti 2021-06-15 $163,655,000
10902051 Product identification in image with multiple products Li-Hsin Huang 2021-01-26 $167,987,000
10902052 Search results through image attractiveness Mark R. Bolin, Ning Ma, Aleksandr Livshits, Alexey Volkov, Pawel Michal Pietrusinksi 2021-01-26 $167,987,000
10891969 Transforming audio content into images Li-Hsin Huang, Congyong Su 2021-01-12 $215,405,000