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Todd Hester — 25 Patents

Google: 18 patents #1,173 of 22,993Top 6%
MOMolex: 5 patents #337 of 1,726Top 20%
Amazon: 1 patents #10,717 of 19,158Top 60%
San Francisco, CA: #1,402 of 26,999 inventorsTop 6%
California: #22,079 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Todd Hester has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in November 2025. Todd Hester ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Todd Hester in San Francisco, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12468779 Training action-selection neural networks from demonstrations using multiple losses 2025-11-11
12008077 Training action-selection neural networks from demonstrations using multiple losses 2024-06-11 $107,845,000
11921824 Sensor data fusion using cross-modal transformer Sheng Chen, Mark Buckler, Ayan Sinha, Hitesh Arora, Michael Lawrence LeKander +1 more 2024-03-05 $300,464,000
11886997 Training action selection neural networks using apprenticeship Olivier Claude Pietquin, Martin Riedmiller, Wang Fumin, Bilal Piot, Mel Vecerik +4 more 2024-01-30 $69,147,000
11874122 Traversal time prediction for common user routes Oliver Lange, Marc Nunkesser, Seongjae Lee 2024-01-16 $115,438,000
11868882 Training action selection neural networks using apprenticeship Olivier Claude Pietquin, Martin Riedmiller, Wang Fumin, Bilal Piot, Mel Vecerik +4 more 2024-01-09 $88,181,000
11836599 Optimizing data center controls using neural networks Richard Andrew Evans, Jim Gao, Michael C. Ryan, Gabriel Dulac-Arnold, Jonathan Karl Scholz 2023-12-05 $99,298,000
11604941 Training action-selection neural networks from demonstrations using multiple losses 2023-03-14 $81,602,000
10643121 Optimizing data center controls using neural networks Richard Andrew Evans, Jim Gao, Michael C. Ryan, Gabriel Dulac-Arnold, Jonathan Karl Scholz 2020-05-05 $33,734,000
10638292 Methods and apparatus for using smart environment devices via application program interfaces Igor Karp, Lev Stesin, Carles Pi-Sunyer, Mark McBride, Alexander Dubman +16 more 2020-04-28 $47,987,000
10248092 Architecture for thermostat control during peak intervals Jonathan Crimins, Scott Ruffner, Allen J. Minich, Amanda Sahl, Praveen R. Subramani 2019-04-02 $38,166,000
10248143 Architecture for thermostat control during time-of-use intervals William Greene, Scott A. McGaraghan, Jonathan Crimins, Scott Ruffner, Allen J. Minich +2 more 2019-04-02 $38,166,000
10223896 Operating a security system Mark Rajan Malhotra, Sophie Le Guen, Jeffrey A. Boyd, Jeffery Theodore Lee 2019-03-05 $25,024,000
10088192 Thermostat algorithms and architecture for efficient operation at low temperatures Jonathan Crimins, Scott Ruffner, Allen J. Minich, Amanda Sahl 2018-10-02 $25,538,000
9933177 Enhanced automated environmental control system scheduling using a preference function Allen J. Minich, George Alban Heitz, III 2018-04-03 $19,555,000
9916751 Learned overrides for home security Mark Rajan Malhotra, Sophie Le Guen, Jeffrey A. Boyd, Jeffery Theodore Lee 2018-03-13 $22,268,000
9869484 Predictively controlling an environmental control system Evan J. Fisher, Piyush Khandelwal 2018-01-16 $13,141,000
9772116 Enhanced automated control scheduling Allen J. Minich, George Alban Heitz, III 2017-09-26 $20,862,000
9756478 Identification of similar users Sayed Yusef Shafi, Jonathan Z. Ben-Meshulam, Sourav Dey 2017-09-05 $18,838,000
9520049 Learned overrides for home security Mark Rajan Malhotra, Sophie Le Guen, Jeffrey A. Boyd, Jeffery Theodore Lee 2016-12-13 $25,735,000
6723928 Terminal pins mounted in flexible substrates Paul Christopher Berg, Harry N. Etters, Robert M. Fuerst, Fred L. Krehbiel 2004-04-20
6086384 Method of fabricating electronic device employing a flat flexible circuit and including the device itself Robert M. Fuerst, Fred L. Krehbiel 2000-07-11
5791459 Normally closed electrical switch Daniel T. Kreger 1998-08-11
5412169 Rocker switch with improved rocker actuator Joseph D. Comerci, Robert DeRoss, Robert M. Fuerst, Edward S. Sommer 1995-05-02
4970624 Electronic device employing a conductive adhesive Don A. Arneson 1990-11-13