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John Messerly — 8 Patents

Microsoft: 7 patents #6,431 of 40,388Top 20%
Culver City, CA: #176 of 898 inventorsTop 20%
California: #74,834 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
John Messerly has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in May 2006. John Messerly ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list John Messerly in Culver City, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7051024 Document summarizer for word processors Ronald A. Fein, William B. Dolan, Edward J. Fries, Christopher A. Thorpe, Shawn J. Cokus 2006-05-23 $28,378,000
6349316 Document summarizer for word processors Ronald A. Fein, William B. Dolan, Edward J. Fries, Christopher A. Thorpe, Shawn J. Cokus 2002-02-19 $242,840,000
6246977 Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text and based on constrained expansion of query words George E. Heidorn, 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 George E. Heidorn, Stephen D. Richardson, William B. Dolan, Karen Jensen 2000-12-12 $487,846,000
6076051 Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text George E. Heidorn, Stephen D. Richardson, William B. Dolan, Karen Jensen 2000-06-13 $505,048,000
5941944 Method for providing a substitute for a requested inaccessible object by identifying substantially similar objects using weights corresponding to object features 1999-08-24 $1,252,225,000
5924108 Document summarizer for word processors Ronald A. Fein, William B. Dolan, Edward J. Fries, Christopher A. Thorpe, Shawn J. Cokus 1999-07-13 $427,321,000
4653942 Method and apparatus for printing Braille Yakov G. Soloveychik 1987-03-31