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William Folwell Barton — 28 Patents

Amazon: 19 patents #620 of 19,158Top 4%
Microsoft: 3 patents #13,486 of 40,388Top 35%
PIPicturetel: 2 patents #16 of 48Top 35%
RARawles: 1 patents #26 of 50Top 55%
VTVoice Signal Technologies: 1 patents #12 of 20Top 60%
Harvard, MA: #19 of 258 inventorsTop 8%
Massachusetts: #3,526 of 88,656 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
William Folwell Barton has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at Amazon. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in August 2023. William Folwell Barton ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list William Folwell Barton in Harvard, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2016.peak 61981: 1 patents19811997: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19982009: 1 patents2012: 2 patents20122014: 1 patents2015: 3 patents20152016: 6 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 3 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 2 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11740863 Search and knowledge base question answering for a voice user interface Daniel Lewis Spector, Fergus O'Donoghue, Chase Wesley Brown, Jr., Shayne Leon Snow, Brandon Gerald Li Horst 2023-08-29 $258,572,000
11624800 Beam rejection in multi-beam microphone systems Kenneth Edgar Hild, II, Ramya Gopalan, Kavitha Velusamy, Amit Singh Chhetri 2023-04-11 $194,427,000
11355115 Question answering for a voice user interface Raluca Teodora Stoian, James Cuff, Matthew Aaron Cember 2022-06-07 $218,376,000
11175372 Beam rejection in multi-beam microphone systems Kenneth Edgar Hild, II, Ramya Gopalan, Kavitha Velusamy, Amit Singh Chhetri 2021-11-16 $260,256,000
10964312 Generation of predictive natural language processing models Rohit Prasad, Stephen Frederick Potter, Nikko Strom, Yuzo Watanabe, Madan Mohan Rao Jampani +2 more 2021-03-30 $248,249,000
10746840 Beam rejection in multi-beam microphone systems Kenneth Edgar Hild, II, Ramya Gopalan, Kavitha Velusamy, Amit Singh Chhetri 2020-08-18 $325,685,000
10706846 Question answering for a voice user interface Raluca Teodora Stoain, James Alfed Cuff, Matthew Aaron Cember 2020-07-07 $194,652,000
10642577 Search and knowledge base question answering for a voice user interface Daniel Lewis Spector, Fergus O'Donoghue, Chase Wesley Brown, Jr., Shayne Leon Snow, Brandon Gerald Li Horst 2020-05-05 $152,444,000
10331402 Search and knowledge base question answering for a voice user interface Daniel Lewis Spector, Fergus O'Donoghue, Chase Wesley Brown, Jr., Shayne Leon Snow, Brandon Gerald Li Horst 2019-06-25 $111,951,000
10062372 Detecting device proximities Philip Ryan Hilmes, Kavitha Velusamy 2018-08-28 $156,805,000
10049656 Generation of predictive natural language processing models Rohit Prasad, Stephen Frederick Potter, Nikko Strom, Yuzo Watanabe, Madan Mohan Rao Jampani +2 more 2018-08-14 $120,171,000
9689960 Beam rejection in multi-beam microphone systems Kenneth Edgar Hild, II, Ramya Gopalan, Kavitha Velusamy, Amit Singh Chhetri 2017-06-27 $44,344,000
9521486 Frequency based beamforming 2016-12-13 $84,236,000
9466286 Transitioning an electronic device between device states Gregory Michael Hart, Jeffrey P. Bezos 2016-10-11
9460715 Identification using audio signatures and additional characteristics Gregory Michael Hart, Scott Ian Blanksteen, Stephen Frederick Potter 2016-10-04 $66,704,000
9368105 Preventing false wake word detections with a voice-controlled device Ian W. Freed, Rohit Prasad 2016-06-14 $68,486,000
9336767 Detecting device proximities Kavitha Velusamy, Philip Ryan Hilmes 2016-05-10 $82,570,000
9319783 Attenuation of output audio based on residual echo Amit Singh Chhetri 2016-04-19 $77,771,000
9147399 Identification using audio signatures and additional characteristics Gregory Michael Hart, Allan Timothy Lindsay, John Daniel Thimsen 2015-09-29 $83,087,000
9047857 Voice commands for transitioning between device states 2015-06-02
8983051 Outgoing call classification and disposition Francisco Manuel Galanes, Anand Ramakrishna, Vishwa Ranjan, Tal Saraf 2015-03-17
8805688 Communications using different modalities Francisco Manuel Galanes, Lawrence M. Ockene, Anand Ramakrishna, Tal Saraf 2014-08-12 $19,073,000
8315874 Voice user interface authoring tool Michelle S. Spina, David Ollason, Julian Odell 2012-11-20 $16,799,000
8131556 Communications using different modalities Francisco Manuel Galanes, Lawrence M. Ockene, Anand Ramakrishna, Tal Saraf 2012-03-06 $24,649,000
7562019 Automated testing of voice recognition software Jordan Cohen, John Ploumis, Douglas J. Ely 2009-07-14