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William Noah Schilit — 75 Patents

Google: 29 patents #560 of 22,993Top 3%
Xerox: 23 patents #599 of 8,622Top 7%
FIFujifilm Business Innovation: 23 patents #367 of 5,238Top 8%
Intel: 9 patents #4,462 of 30,777Top 15%
ATAT&T: 2 patents #7,295 of 18,772Top 40%
GOGoolge: 1 patents #1 of 29Top 4%
Mountain View, CA: #105 of 11,022 inventorsTop 1%
California: #3,914 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #25,505 of 4,157,543Top 1%
75 Patents All Time
William Noah Schilit has been granted 75 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in April 2025. William Noah Schilit ranks #25,505 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.61%). Patent records list William Noah Schilit in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2003.peak 61996: 5 patents19961997: 3 patents1998: 2 patents1999: 2 patents19992001: 1 patents2002: 3 patents2003: 6 patents20032004: 4 patents2005: 3 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 5 patents2009: 2 patents2010: 4 patents20102012: 3 patents2013: 3 patents2014: 6 patents20142015: 5 patents2016: 2 patents2017: 4 patents20172018: 4 patents2019: 2 patents2020: 2 patents20202022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 75 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12265593 Providing ambient information based on learned user context and interaction, and associated systems and devices Paige Pritchard, Alon Hetzroni 2025-04-01
11736555 IOT interaction system Roy Want 2023-08-22 $85,414,000
11265363 IOT interaction system Roy Want 2022-03-01 $81,407,000
10812867 Discovering and displaying media content related to an electronic document Dave Scott Fisher, Vincent Dureau 2020-10-20 $55,850,000
10635460 Assisted interaction for mobile products Roy Want 2020-04-28 $47,987,000
10375449 Discovering and displaying media content related to an electronic document Dave Scott Fisher, Vincent Dureau 2019-08-06 $34,200,000
10257256 IOT interaction system Roy Want 2019-04-09 $29,906,000
10045169 Systems and methods for personalizing public devices Roy Want, Mark Sobaszek 2018-08-07 $44,541,000
9911136 Method and system for providing sign data and sign history Roy Want 2018-03-06 $24,514,000
9907008 Cloud-coordinated location system using ultrasonic pulses and radio signals Roy Want 2018-02-27 $53,709,000
9870057 Gesture detection using an array of short-range communication devices Roy Want, Yang Li 2018-01-16 $13,141,000
9674583 Discovering and displaying media content related to an electronic document Dave Scott Fisher, Vincent Dureau 2017-06-06 $14,154,000
9666013 Cloud-based vending Roy Want, Scott Jenson 2017-05-30 $12,730,000
9621703 Motion to connect to kiosk Roy Want 2017-04-11 $12,654,000
9609482 Cloud-coordinated location system using ultrasonic pulses and radio signals Roy Want 2017-03-28 $13,010,000
9413872 Motion to connect to kiosk Roy Want 2016-08-09 $20,086,000
9323827 Identifying key terms related to similar passages Okan Kolak 2016-04-26 $15,164,000
9215286 Creating a social network based on an activity Roy Want, Bay-Wei Chang, Yang-Yu Li, Shumin Zhai, Ed H. Chi +1 more 2015-12-15
9203476 System and method for code communication Roy Want, Sean Coleman Keenan 2015-12-01 $20,090,000
9071282 Variable read rates for short-range communication Roy Want, Richard C. Gossweiler, III 2015-06-30 $8,769,000
9002930 Activity distribution between multiple devices Roy Want 2015-04-07 $9,663,000
8935547 Method and apparatus for user-activity-based dynamic power management and policy creation for mobile platforms Georgios Theocharous, Nilesh N. Shah, Uttam Sengupta, Kelan Silvester, Robert A. Dunstan 2015-01-13 $22,967,000
8874594 Search with my location history Roy Want 2014-10-28 $9,476,000
8812470 Method and apparatus to reorder search results in view of identified information of interest Barbara Rosario 2014-08-19 $23,268,000
8705707 Labeling communcation device call logs Roy Want 2014-04-22 $15,492,000