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Kevyn B. Collins-Thompson — 10 Patents

Microsoft: 10 patents #4,378 of 40,388Top 15%
Seattle, WA: #2,987 of 21,776 inventorsTop 15%
Washington: #10,505 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Kevyn B. Collins-Thompson has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in March 2020. Kevyn B. Collins-Thompson ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Kevyn B. Collins-Thompson in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2017.peak 32004: 2 patents20042006: 1 patents20062014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents20152017: 3 patents20172020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10579652 Learning and using contextual content retrieval rules for query disambiguation Paul Nathan Bennett, Siranush Sarkizova, Milad Shokouhi, Marc Sloan 2020-03-03 $64,161,000
9600585 Using reading levels in responding to requests Sebastian de la Chica, Paul Nathan Bennett, David Sontag, Ryen William White 2017-03-21 $43,991,000
9594837 Prediction and information retrieval for intrinsically diverse sessions Karthik Raman, Paul Nathan Bennett 2017-03-14 $33,293,000
9535995 Optimizing a ranker for a risk-oriented objective Paul Nathan Bennett, Lidan Wang 2017-01-03 $30,922,000
8954423 Using reading levels in responding to requests Sebastian de la Chica, Paul Nathan Bennett, David Sontag, Ryen William White 2015-02-10 $22,754,000
8719249 Query classification Paul Nathan Bennett, David M. Chickering, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling 2014-05-06 $28,438,000
8700544 Functionality for personalizing search results David Sontag, Paul Nathan Bennett, Ryen William White, Susan T. Dumais 2014-04-15 $31,167,000
6996276 Method and apparatus for discriminating between documents in batch scanned document files Ming Liu, Daryl Lawton 2006-02-07 $26,131,000
6735335 Method and apparatus for discriminating between documents in batch scanned document files Ming Liu, Daryl Lawton 2004-05-11 $154,027,000
6687697 System and method for improved string matching under noisy channel conditions Charles B. Schweizer 2004-02-03 $130,307,000