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Jianfeng Gao — 108 Patents

Microsoft: 95 patents #72 of 40,388Top 1%
HPHand Held Products: 5 patents #165 of 724Top 25%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
Overall (All Time): #12,416 of 4,157,543Top 1%
108 Patents All Time
Jianfeng Gao has been granted 108 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in October 2025. Jianfeng Gao ranks #12,416 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.30%). Patent records list Jianfeng Gao in Anqiu City, WA, CN.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2010.peak 102004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 3 patents2007: 6 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 3 patents2010: 10 patents20102011: 7 patents2012: 1 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 5 patents2015: 3 patents2016: 6 patents20162017: 5 patents2018: 9 patents2019: 9 patents20192020: 8 patents2021: 4 patents2022: 4 patents20222023: 6 patents2024: 5 patents2025: 8 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 76–100 of 108 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8255412 Boosting algorithm for ranking model adaptation Yi Su, Qiang Wu, Chris Burges, Krysta Svore, Elbio Renato Torres Abib 2012-08-28 $15,180,000
8060456 Training a search result ranker with automatically-generated samples Kuansan Wang 2011-11-15 $16,121,000
8060358 HMM alignment for combining translation systems Xiaodong He, Mei Yang, Patrick Nguyen 2011-11-15 $16,121,000
8024319 Finite-state model for processing web queries Qi Yao, Ji-Rong Wen 2011-09-20 $12,393,000
7991609 Web-based proofing and usage guidance Chris Brockett, William B. Dolan, Michael Gamon, Lucy Vanderwende, Hsiao-Wen Hon +3 more 2011-08-02 $22,196,000
7983903 Mining bilingual dictionaries from monolingual web pages 2011-07-19 $14,062,000
7974963 Method and system for retrieving confirming sentences Ming Zhou, Hua Wu, Yue Zhang, Chang-Ning Huang 2011-07-05
7933847 Limited-memory quasi-newton optimization algorithm for L1-regularized objectives Galen Andrew 2011-04-26 $19,159,000
7844555 Ranker selection for statistical natural language processing Galen Andrew, Mark Edward Johnson, Kristina Toutanova 2010-11-30 $23,766,000
7822699 Adaptive semantic reasoning engine Sanjeev Katariya, Qi Yao, Jun Liu, William D. Ramsey 2010-10-26 $19,005,000
7818332 Query speller Elliott K. Olds, Gregory Hullender, Haoyong Zhang, Janine Crumb, Ming Zhou +2 more 2010-10-19 $12,837,000
7783629 Training a ranking component Hang Li, Yunbo Cao 2010-08-24 $15,140,000
7783588 Context modeling architecture and framework William D. Ramsey, Sanjeev Katariya 2010-08-24 $15,140,000
7774193 Proofing of word collocation errors based on a comparison with collocations in a corpus William B. Dolan, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Ming Zhou 2010-08-10 $15,662,000
7725442 Automatic evaluation of summaries Chin-Yew Lin, Guihong CAO, Jian-Yun Nie 2010-05-25 $21,030,000
7707204 Factoid-based searching Hang Li, Yunbo Cao 2010-04-27 $19,291,000
7680659 Discriminative training for language modeling Hisami Suzuki 2010-03-16 $17,803,000
7672832 Standardized natural language chunking utility Chang-Ning Huang, Hong-Qiao Li 2010-03-02 $22,070,000
7574348 Processing collocation mistakes in documents Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Ming Zhou 2009-08-11 $34,426,000
7536293 Methods and systems for language translation Ming Zhuo 2009-05-19 $25,886,000
7493251 Using source-channel models for word segmentation Mu Li, Chang-Ning Huang, Jian Sun, Lei Zhang, Ming Zhou 2009-02-17 $27,209,000
7328199 Componentized slot-filling architecture William D. Ramsey, Sanjeev Katariya 2008-02-05 $67,592,000
7277732 Language input system for mobile devices Zheng Chen, Mingjing Li, Feng Zhang, Rui Yang 2007-10-02 $31,692,000
7275029 System and method for joint optimization of language model performance and size Kai-Fu Lee, Mingjing Li, Hai Wang, Dong-Feng Cai, Lee-Feng Chien 2007-09-25 $32,487,000
7254529 Method and apparatus for distribution-based language model adaptation Mingjing Li 2007-08-07 $32,411,000