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Karen E. Fries — 10 Patents

Microsoft: 10 patents #4,378 of 40,388Top 15%
Duvall, WA: #61 of 384 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #10,505 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Karen E. Fries has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in April 2011. Karen E. Fries ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Karen E. Fries in Duvall, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2002.peak 21997: 1 patents19972002: 2 patents20022003: 2 patents20032004: 1 patents20042007: 2 patents20072008: 1 patents20082011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7925975 Searching for commands to execute in applications Aravind Bala 2011-04-12 $11,368,000
7444348 System for enhancing a query interface John M. Tippett, Jeffrey Richter 2008-10-28 $20,407,000
7305389 Content propagation for enhanced document retrieval Hua-Jun Zeng, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Hsiao-Wuen Hon +3 more 2007-12-04 $30,374,000
7289985 Enhanced document retrieval Hua-Jun Zeng, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Hsiao-Wuen Hon +3 more 2007-10-30 $46,422,000
6751606 System for enhancing a query interface John M. Tippett, Jeffrey Richter 2004-06-15 $100,331,000
6601059 Computerized searching tool with spell checking 2003-07-29 $214,504,000
6513031 System for improving search area selection John M. Tippett, Jeffrey Richter 2003-01-28 $213,065,000
6460029 System for improving search text John M. Tippett, Jeffrey Richter 2002-10-01 $150,453,000
6388665 Software platform having a real world interface with animated characters Barry J. Linnett, Lawrence H. Powelson 2002-05-14 $218,964,000
5682469 Software platform having a real world interface with animated characters Barry J. Linnett, Lawrence H. Powelson 1997-10-28 $167,689,000