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Qi Yao — 10 Patents

Microsoft: 9 patents #4,919 of 40,388Top 15%
HYHypevr: 1 patents #5 of 8Top 65%
Bellevue, WA: #1,161 of 6,950 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #10,505 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Qi Yao has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in September 2021. Qi Yao ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Qi Yao in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2009.peak 22009: 2 patents20092010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents20112015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents20162020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11120623 Optimized volumetric video playback Caoyang Jiang, Xiaolin Liu, Jason Juang, Anthony Tran 2021-09-14
10878307 EQ-digital conversation assistant Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Daniel Lee Massey, Dustin Abramson, Donald Brinkman, Scott A. Schwarz +6 more 2020-12-29 $251,937,000
10838967 Emotional intelligence for a conversational chatbot Ying Wang, Maria Alexandropoulou, Konstantinos Aisopos, Di Li, Oussama Elachqar +1 more 2020-11-17 $148,442,000
9514221 Part-of-speech tagging for ranking search results Kyrylo Tropin, Ka Cheung Sia, Gu Xu, Bhuvan Middha, Sandeep Dey +1 more 2016-12-06 $40,101,000
8977624 Enhancing search-result relevance ranking using uniform resource locators for queries containing non-encoding characters Ruihua Song, Junyan Chen 2015-03-10 $31,260,000
8024319 Finite-state model for processing web queries Jianfeng Gao, Ji-Rong Wen 2011-09-20 $12,393,000
7933914 Automatic task creation and execution using browser helper objects William D. Ramsey, Sanjeev Katariya, Zhanliang Chen 2011-04-26 $19,159,000
7822699 Adaptive semantic reasoning engine Sanjeev Katariya, Jun Liu, William D. Ramsey, Jianfeng Gao 2010-10-26 $19,005,000
7627564 High scale adaptive search systems and methods Jun Liu, Sanjeev Katariya 2009-12-01 $28,638,000
7529736 Performant relevance improvements in search query results Sanjeev Katariya, Jun Liu, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Bradley Ray Green 2009-05-05 $21,029,000