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Kenneth W. D. Smith — 10 Patents

Microsoft: 10 patents #4,378 of 40,388Top 15%
London, GB: #710 of 11,041 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Kenneth W. D. Smith has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2015 and the most recent in July 2021. Kenneth W. D. Smith ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Kenneth W. D. Smith in London, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2015 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2015.peak 32015: 3 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 2 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11074908 System and method for aligning ASR model weights with NLU concepts Nathan M. Bodenstab, Matt Hohensee, Dermot Connolly, Vittorio Manzone 2021-07-27 $70,327,000
11024298 Methods and apparatus for speech recognition using a garbage model Cosmin Popovici, Petrus C. Cools 2021-06-01 $45,307,000
10789426 Processing natural language text with context-specific linguistic model Jean-Francois Lavallee 2020-09-29 $25,663,000
10360904 Methods and apparatus for speech recognition using a garbage model Cosmin Popovici, Petrus C. Cools 2019-07-23 $11,938,000
10108603 Processing natural language text with context-specific linguistic model Jean-Francois Lavallee 2018-10-23 $8,422,000
9571645 Systems and methods for providing a virtual assistant Holger Quast, Jean-Guy E. Dahan, Andrew D. Mauro 2017-02-14 $4,718,000
9288156 Method and apparatus for supporting scalable multi-modal dialog application sessions Solomon Z. Lerner, Caroline Drouin, Shimol Shah 2016-03-15 $12,916,000
9075619 Method and apparatus for supporting multi-modal dialog applications Solomon Z. Lerner, Gerard Nantel, Caroline Drouin 2015-07-07
9047856 Method and apparatus for tone detection Jaques de Broin 2015-06-02 $16,948,000
9026659 Method and apparatus for supporting scalable multi-modal dialog application sessions Solomon Z. Lerner, Caroline Drouin, Shimol Shah 2015-05-05 $3,908,000