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Thad Eugene Starner — 104 Patents

Google: 88 patents #50 of 22,993Top 1%
GRGeorgia Tech Research: 7 patents #102 of 2,755Top 4%
MIT: 2 patents #2,550 of 9,367Top 30%
KAIST: 1 patents #5,996 of 11,619Top 55%
VSVerily Life Sciences: 1 patents #292 of 419Top 70%
Mountain View, CA: #50 of 11,022 inventorsTop 1%
California: #2,097 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #13,407 of 4,157,543Top 1%
104 Patents All Time
Thad Eugene Starner has been granted 104 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in November 2025. Thad Eugene Starner ranks #13,407 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.32%). Patent records list Thad Eugene Starner in Mountain View, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 104 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12469476 Passive haptic training system and methods Caitlyn Seim 2025-11-11
12008204 Scalable gesture sensor for wearable and soft electronic devices Alex Olwal 2024-06-11 $107,845,000
11962296 Flexible sensing interface systems and methods Seyedeh Fereshteh Shahmiri, Chaoyu Chen, Gregory D. Abowd, Shivan Mittal, Yi-Cheng Wang +4 more 2024-04-16
11762474 Systems, methods and devices for gesture recognition Cheng Zhang, Gregory D. Abowd, Ömer Inan, Pranav Kundra, Thomas Ploetz +5 more 2023-09-19
11693521 Detecting twist input with an interactive cord Karissa A. Sawyer, Greg Ellis Priest-Dorman, Jonathan Moeller, Nidhi Rathi, Jianyi Liu +2 more 2023-07-04
11647340 Thin and flexible self-powered vibration transducer employing triboelectric nanogeneration Nivedita Arora, Gregory D. Abowd, Mohit Gupta, Diego Osorio, Seyedeh Fereshteh Shahmiri +9 more 2023-05-09
11389084 Electronic device and method of controlling same Cheng Zhang, Gregory D. Abowd, Ömer Inan 2022-07-19
11294511 Detecting twist input with an interactive cord Karissa A. Sawyer, Greg Ellis Priest-Dorman, Jonathan Moeller, Nidhi Rathi, Jianyi Liu +2 more 2022-04-05 $106,112,000
10932063 Thin and flexible self-powered vibration transducer employing triboelectric nanogeneration Nivedita Arora, Gregory D. Abowd, Mohit Gupta, Diego Osorio, Seyedeh Fereshteh Shahmiri +9 more 2021-02-23
10698999 Authentication using an interactive cord Karissa A. Sawyer 2020-06-30 $43,782,000
10665205 Determining correlated movements associated with movements caused by driving a vehicle Joshua Weaver 2020-05-26 $36,392,000
10437882 Object occlusion to initiate a visual search Irfan Essa, Hayes Solos Raffle, Daniel Aminzade 2019-10-08 $32,246,000
10402020 Detecting twist input with an interactive cord Karissa A. Sawyer, Greg Ellis Priest-Dorman, Jonathan Moeller, Nidhi Rathi, Jianyi Liu +2 more 2019-09-03 $25,907,000
10394057 Eyes closed interface Michael Patrick Johnson, Brian Otis, Max Benjamin Braun, Nathan Pletcher, Joshua N. Haddock 2019-08-27 $35,211,000
10341113 Password management Michael Patrick Johnson 2019-07-02 $29,234,000
10222924 Interactive cord with resistance touchpoints Karissa A. Sawyer, Seungyon Lee, Seth Raphael, Jonathan Moeller 2019-03-05 $25,024,000
10194121 Content capture Mat Balez, Nirmal Patel 2019-01-29 $26,977,000
10149036 Preventing false positives with an interactive cord Karissa A. Sawyer, Greg Ellis Priest-Dorman 2018-12-04 $28,362,000
10146323 Magnetometer-based gesture sensing with a wearable device Edward Keyes, Michael Patrick Johnson 2018-12-04 $28,362,000
10121388 Methods, systems, and apparatuses to convey chorded input Caitlyn Seim 2018-11-06
10111304 Interactive cord with integrated light sources Karissa A. Sawyer, Greg Ellis Priest-Dorman 2018-10-23 $22,727,000
10083289 Authentication using an interactive cord Karissa A. Sawyer 2018-09-25 $31,914,000
10047459 Interactive cord Karissa A. Sawyer, Greg Ellis Priest-Dorman 2018-08-14 $25,049,000
10037682 Systems and methods for remotely activating an emergency protocol Rohan Shah 2018-07-31 $28,956,000
10032429 Device control utilizing optical flow Michael Patrick Johnson 2018-07-24 $29,033,000