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 2011 Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2002. peak 2 1997: 1 patents 1997 2002: 2 patents 2002 2003: 2 patents 2003 2004: 1 patents 2004 2007: 2 patents 2007 2008: 1 patents 2008 2011: 1 patents 2011
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Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx 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
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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