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Stephen R. Springer — 19 Patents

Microsoft: 11 patents #3,886 of 40,388Top 10%
TPThe Affinity Project: 5 patents #2 of 8Top 25%
DGDana Automotive Systems Group: 1 patents #125 of 269Top 50%
SISpeechworks International: 1 patents #11 of 22Top 50%
Needham, MA: #76 of 796 inventorsTop 10%
Massachusetts: #6,113 of 88,656 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Stephen R. Springer has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in March 2019. Stephen R. Springer ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Stephen R. Springer in Needham, MA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10235620 Guided personal companion Ronald Steven Suskind, John N. Nguyen, Stuart R. Patterson, Mark Fanty 2019-03-19
10140882 Configuring a virtual companion Mark Fanty, Ronald Steven Suskind, Stuart R. Patterson, John N. Nguyen 2018-11-27
10060505 Device for securing balancing weights to a shaft 2018-08-28 $15,252,000
9802125 On demand guided virtual companion Ronald Steven Suskind, Stuart R. Patterson, John N. Nguyen, Mark Fanty, Erik Martin Gregory 2017-10-31
9792825 Triggering a session with a virtual companion Mark Fanty, Ronald Steven Suskind, Stuart R. Patterson, John N. Nguyen 2017-10-17
9710613 Guided personal companion Ronald Steven Suskind, John N. Nguyen, Stuart R. Patterson, Mark Fanty 2017-07-18
9288320 System and method for servicing a call 2016-03-15 $12,916,000
9185214 Method and apparatus for providing enhanced communications 2015-11-10 $5,564,000
8914291 Method and apparatus for generating synthetic speech with contrastive stress Darren C. Meyer 2014-12-16 $6,546,000
8825486 Method and apparatus for generating synthetic speech with contrastive stress Darren C. Meyer 2014-09-02 $5,101,000
8767927 System and method for servicing a call 2014-07-01 $5,376,000
8767928 System and method for servicing a call 2014-07-01 $5,376,000
8762939 System and method for displaying key performance indicators in an application design tool Amy E. Ulug, Suresh Panganamala, Rakesh Ramadas, William Bridges Smith, Jr., Vijay Raman +1 more 2014-06-24 $10,612,000
8682671 Method and apparatus for generating synthetic speech with contrastive stress Darren C. Meyer 2014-03-25 $7,590,000
8640932 Shooter's cup Matt Dalton 2014-02-04
8571870 Method and apparatus for generating synthetic speech with contrastive stress Darren C. Meyer 2013-10-29 $6,846,000
8447610 Method and apparatus for generating synthetic speech with contrastive stress Darren C. Meyer 2013-05-21 $28,523,000
8433053 Voice user interfaces based on sample call descriptions Amy E. Ulug, Rakesh Ramadas, Suresh Panganamala 2013-04-30 $22,749,000
7069221 Non-target barge-in detection Matthew D. Crane, Mark A. Holthouse, John Ngoc Nguyen, Michael S. Phillips 2006-06-27