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Michael Patrick Johnson — 40 Patents

Google: 27 patents #647 of 22,993Top 3%
Illinois Tool Works: 4 patents #959 of 4,311Top 25%
Northrop Grumman: 3 patents #566 of 2,250Top 30%
Apple: 2 patents #9,294 of 18,612Top 50%
MIT: 1 patents #4,386 of 9,367Top 50%
VSVerily Life Sciences: 1 patents #292 of 419Top 70%
Sunnyvale, CA: #498 of 14,302 inventorsTop 4%
California: #11,486 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Michael Patrick Johnson has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in August 2025. Michael Patrick Johnson ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Michael Patrick Johnson in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12394145 Feedback using coverage for object scanning Thorsten Gernoth, Cheng Lu, Hao Tang 2025-08-19
12283020 Systems, methods, and user interfaces for generating a three-dimensional virtual representation of an object Zachary Z. Becker, Michelle Chua, Thorsten Gernoth, Allison W. Dryer 2025-04-22
10394057 Eyes closed interface Thad Eugene Starner, Brian Otis, Max Benjamin Braun, Nathan Pletcher, Joshua N. Haddock 2019-08-27 $35,211,000
10341113 Password management Thad Eugene Starner 2019-07-02 $29,234,000
10146323 Magnetometer-based gesture sensing with a wearable device Edward Keyes, Thad Eugene Starner 2018-12-04 $28,362,000
10032429 Device control utilizing optical flow Thad Eugene Starner 2018-07-24 $29,033,000
9979547 Password management Thad Eugene Starner 2018-05-22 $26,541,000
9857965 Resolution of directional ambiguity on touch-based interface gesture Thad Eugene Starner, Nirmal Patel, Adrian Wong 2018-01-02 $21,262,000
9811535 Creating social network groups Thad Eugene Starner, Christopher R. Wren 2017-11-07 $17,024,000
9779758 Augmenting speech segmentation and recognition using head-mounted vibration and/or motion sensors Jianchun Dong, Mat Balez 2017-10-03 $16,346,000
9746915 Methods and systems for calibrating a device Hayes Solos Raffle, Thad Eugene Starner, Mat Balez, Yong Zhao, Bo Wu +2 more 2017-08-29 $14,064,000
9720083 Using sounds for determining a worn state of a wearable computing device Carroll Philip Gossett 2017-08-01 $11,442,000
9710056 Methods and systems for correlating movement of a device with state changes of the device Steve Lee, Mat Balez, Nirmal Patel 2017-07-18 $16,660,000
9658692 Magnetometer-based gesture sensing with a wearable device Edward Keyes, Thad Eugene Starner 2017-05-23 $19,357,000
9557152 Use of comparative sensor data to determine orientation of head relative to body Thad Eugene Starner 2017-01-31 $11,039,000
9547365 Managing information display Hayes Solos Raffle, Alok Chandel, Chun Yat Frank Li 2017-01-17 $19,541,000
9418617 Methods and systems for receiving input controls Thad Eugene Starner, Bo Wu 2016-08-16 $13,695,000
9268136 Use of comparative sensor data to determine orientation of head relative to body Thad Eugene Starner 2016-02-23 $16,485,000
9264803 Using sounds for determining a worn state of a wearable computing device Carroll Philip Gossett 2016-02-16 $15,808,000
9239626 Input system Bo Wu, David Sparks 2016-01-19 $28,546,000
9230501 Device control utilizing optical flow Thad Eugene Starner 2016-01-05 $26,489,000
9176582 Input system Max Benjamin Braun 2015-11-03 $16,214,000
9171198 Image capture technique Hayes Solos Raffle, Sergey Brin, Bo Wu, David Sparks 2015-10-27 $20,917,000
9164588 Wearable computing device with gesture recognition Mat Balez, David Sparks, Thad Eugene Starner 2015-10-20 $16,016,000
9141194 Magnetometer-based gesture sensing with a wearable device Edward Keyes, Thad Eugene Starner 2015-09-22 $16,694,000