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Stephen D. Richardson — 21 Patents

Microsoft: 20 patents #1,724 of 40,388Top 5%
Redmond, WA: #546 of 8,547 inventorsTop 7%
Washington: #4,391 of 76,902 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Stephen D. Richardson has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in June 2023. Stephen D. Richardson ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Stephen D. Richardson in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2000.peak 51998: 1 patents19981999: 2 patents2000: 5 patents20002001: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 2 patents20082009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102012: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11679999 Method and apparatus to separate per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from water using colloidal gas aphrons (CGAs) Charles J. Newell, Poonam R. Kulkarni, Hassan Javed, Nicholas W. Johnson 2023-06-20
8275605 Machine language translation with transfer mappings having varying context Arul A. Menezes 2012-09-25 $17,180,000
7734459 Automatic extraction of transfer mappings from bilingual corpora Arul A. Menezes 2010-06-08 $16,528,000
7496496 System and method for machine learning a confidence metric for machine translation Christopher Brian Quirk, Arul A. Menezes, Robert C. Moore 2009-02-24 $16,710,000
7383542 Adaptive machine translation service Richard F. Rashid 2008-06-03 $22,353,000
7383169 Method and system for compiling a lexical knowledge base Lucretia H. Vanderwende, Karen Jensen, George E. Heidorn, William B. Dolan 2008-06-03 $22,353,000
7295963 Adaptive machine translation Richard F. Rashid 2007-11-13 $32,869,000
7206735 Scaleable machine translation Aurl A. Menezes, Jessie E. Pinkman, William B. Dolan 2007-04-17 $35,960,000
7050964 Scaleable machine translation system Arul A. Menzes, Jessie Pinkham, William B. Dolan 2006-05-23 $28,378,000
7013264 System and method for matching a textual input to a lexical knowledge based and for utilizing results of that match William B. Dolan, Michael Barnett, Arul A. Menezes, Lucretia H. Vanderwende 2006-03-14 $49,415,000
6871174 System and method for matching a textual input to a lexical knowledge base and for utilizing results of that match William B. Dolan, Michael Barnett, Arul A. Menezes, Lucretia H. Vanderwende 2005-03-22 $61,729,000
6640006 Word segmentation in chinese text Andi Wu, Zixin Jiang 2003-10-28 $119,194,000
6246977 Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text and based on constrained expansion of query words John Messerly, George E. Heidorn, William B. Dolan, Karen Jensen 2001-06-12 $572,053,000
6161084 Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text by identifying hypernyms and indexing multiple tokenized semantic structures to a same passage of text John Messerly, George E. Heidorn, William B. Dolan, Karen Jensen 2000-12-12 $487,846,000
6138085 Inferring semantic relations Lucy Vanderwende 2000-10-24 $630,826,000
6098033 Determining similarity between words William B. Dolan 2000-08-01 $383,201,000
6076051 Information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text John Messerly, George E. Heidorn, William B. Dolan, Karen Jensen 2000-06-13 $505,048,000
6070134 Identifying salient semantic relation paths between two words William B. Dolan 2000-05-30 $587,353,000
5999896 Method and system for identifying and resolving commonly confused words in a natural language parser George E. Heidorn 1999-12-07 $326,396,000
5963894 Method and system for bootstrapping statistical processing into a rule-based natural language parser George E. Heidorn 1999-10-05 $496,134,000
5752052 Method and system for bootstrapping statistical processing into a rule-based natural language parser George E. Heidorn 1998-05-12 $152,665,000