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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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William J. Byrne — 76 Patents

Google: 60 patents #125 of 22,993Top 1%
VLVenantius Limited: 3 patents #4 of 6Top 70%
BHBen Franklin Patent Holding: 2 patents #16 of 31Top 55%
Intel: 2 patents #13,316 of 30,777Top 45%
Davis, CA: #5 of 1,472 inventorsTop 1%
California: #3,799 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #24,882 of 4,157,543Top 1%
76 Patents All Time
William J. Byrne has been granted 76 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in August 2025. William J. Byrne ranks #24,882 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.60%). Patent records list William J. Byrne in Davis, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2014.peak 71989: 1 patents19891991: 3 patents1992: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents2001: 2 patents2002: 1 patents20022007: 1 patents2010: 1 patents2011: 4 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 6 patents2014: 7 patents20142015: 4 patents2016: 6 patents2017: 4 patents20172018: 4 patents2019: 4 patents2020: 6 patents20202021: 2 patents2022: 6 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 6 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 76 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12386585 Multi-modal input on an electronic device Brandon M. Ballinger, Johan Schalkwyk, Michael H. Cohen, Gudmundur Hafsteinsson, Michael J. LeBeau 2025-08-12
12158917 State-dependent query response John Nicholas Jitkoff, Michael J. LeBeau, David Singleton 2024-12-03 $144,256,000
12148423 Word-level correction of speech input Michael J. LeBeau, John Nicholas Jitkoff, Brandon M. Ballinger, Trausti Kristjansson 2024-11-19 $89,094,000
12124523 Automatic routing using search results Michael J. LeBeau, John Nicholas Jitkoff 2024-10-22 $118,222,000
12010597 Routing queries based on carrier phrase registration Michael J. LeBeau, John Nicholas Jitkoff 2024-06-11 $107,845,000
11990124 Language model prediction of API call invocations and verbal responses Karthik Krishnamoorthi, Saravanan Ganesh 2024-05-21 $161,870,000
11914925 Multi-modal input on an electronic device Brandon M. Ballinger, Johan Schalkwyk, Michael H. Cohen, Gudmundur Hafsteinsson, Michael J. LeBeau 2024-02-27 $97,983,000
11748430 Automatic routing using search results Michael J. LeBeau, John Nicholas Jitkoff 2023-09-05 $82,703,000
11494453 Automatic dialing Michael J. LeBeau, John Nicholas Jitkoff 2022-11-08 $53,588,000
11438744 Routing queries based on carrier phrase registration Michael J. LeBeau, John Nicholas Jitkoff 2022-09-06 $85,235,000
11423888 Predicting and learning carrier phrases for speech input Alexander H. Gruenstein, Douglas H. Beeferman 2022-08-23 $66,459,000
11416214 Multi-modal input on an electronic device Brandon M. Ballinger, Johan Schalkwyk, Michael H. Cohen, Gudmundur Hafsteinsson, Michael J. LeBeau 2022-08-16 $112,420,000
11341970 Personal directory service Brian Strope, Francoise Beaufays 2022-05-24 $54,647,000
11216522 State-dependent query response John Nicholas Jitkoff, Michael J. LeBeau, David Singleton 2022-01-04 $94,516,000
11037566 Word-level correction of speech input Michael J. LeBeau, John Nicholas Jitkoff, Brandon M. Ballinger, Trausti Kristjansson 2021-06-15 $75,825,000
10909199 Automatic routing using search results Michael J. LeBeau, John Nicholas Jitkoff 2021-02-02 $80,507,000
10713010 Multi-modal input on an electronic device Brandon M. Ballinger, Johan Schalkwyk, Michael H. Cohen, Gudmundur Hafsteinsson, Michael J. LeBeau 2020-07-14 $35,010,000
10679624 Personal directory service Brian Strope, Francoise Beaufays 2020-06-09 $30,288,000
10672394 Word-level correction of speech input Michael J. LeBeau, John Nicholas Jitkoff, Brandon M. Ballinger, Trausti Kristjansson 2020-06-02 $35,795,000
10621253 State-dependent query response John Nicholas Jitkoff, Michael J. LeBeau, David Singleton 2020-04-14 $37,035,000
10599729 State-dependent query response John Nicholas Jitkoff, Michael J. LeBeau, David Singleton 2020-03-24 $23,869,000
10582355 Routing queries based on carrier phrase registration Michael J. LeBeau, John Nicholas Jitkoff 2020-03-03 $35,056,000
10496714 State-dependent query response John Nicholas Jitkoff, Michael J. LeBeau, David Singleton 2019-12-03 $34,836,000
10496718 State-dependent query response John Nicholas Jitkoff, Michael J. LeBeau, David Singleton 2019-12-03 $34,836,000
10297252 Predicting and learning carrier phrases for speech input Alexander H. Gruenstein, Douglas H. Beeferman 2019-05-21 $26,266,000