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George Andrei Saon — 31 Patents

IBM: 31 patents #3,241 of 70,183Top 5%
Stamford, CT: #26 of 1,447 inventorsTop 2%
Connecticut: #1,066 of 34,797 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
George Andrei Saon has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in November 2025. George Andrei Saon ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list George Andrei Saon in Stamford, CT, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2024.peak 62002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092016: 2 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 3 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 4 patents20212023: 2 patents2024: 6 patents20242025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12482483 Length perturbation techniques for improving generalization of deep neural network acoustic models Xiaodong Cui, Brian E. D. Kingsbury 2025-11-25
12444405 Textual knowledge transfer for improved speech recognition and understanding Samuel Thomas, Vishal Sunder, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Brian E. D. Kingsbury, Eric Fosler-Lussier 2025-10-14
12387717 Multi-speaker data augmentation for improved end-to-end automatic speech recognition Samuel Thomas, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Brian E. D. Kingsbury 2025-08-12
12288551 Accuracy of streaming RNN transducer Gakuto Kurata 2025-04-29
12148419 Reducing exposure bias in machine learning training of sequence-to-sequence transducers Xiaodong Cui, Brian E. D. Kingsbury, David C. Haws, Zoltan Tueske 2024-11-19 $17,641,000
12136414 Integrating dialog history into end-to-end spoken language understanding systems Samuel Thomas, Jatin Ganhotra, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Sachindra Joshi, Zoltan Tueske +1 more 2024-11-05 $24,022,000
12046236 Training end-to-end spoken language understanding systems with unordered entities Hong-Kwang Kuo, Zoltan Tueske, Samuel Thomas, Brian E. D. Kingsbury 2024-07-23 $16,565,000
11942078 Chunking and overlap decoding strategy for streaming RNN transducers for speech recognition 2024-03-26 $9,065,000
11908454 Integrating text inputs for training and adapting neural network transducer ASR models Samuel Thomas, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Brian E. D. Kingsbury, Gakuto Kurata 2024-02-20 $7,691,000
11908458 Customization of recurrent neural network transducers for speech recognition Gakuto Kurata, Brian E. D. Kingsbury 2024-02-20 $7,691,000
11783811 Accuracy of streaming RNN transducer Gakuto Kurata 2023-10-10 $6,086,000
11741946 Multiplicative integration in neural network transducer models for end-to-end speech recognition Daniel Bolanos 2023-08-29 $6,011,000
11158303 Soft-forgetting for connectionist temporal classification based automatic speech recognition Kartik Audhkhasi, Zoltan Tueske, Brian E. D. Kingsbury, Michael A. Picheny 2021-10-26 $2,874,000
11151996 Vocal recognition using generally available speech-to-text systems and user-defined vocal training Nicolò Sgobba, Antonello Izzi, Erik Rueger 2021-10-19 $2,168,000
11120802 Diarization driven by the ASR based segmentation Kenneth W. Church, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Petr Fousek, Miroslav Novak 2021-09-14 $2,674,000
10902843 Using recurrent neural network for partitioning of audio data into segments that each correspond to a speech feature cluster identifier Dimitrios Dimitriadis, David C. Haws, Michael A. Picheny, Samuel Thomas 2021-01-26 $1,788,000
10546575 Using recurrent neural network for partitioning of audio data into segments that each correspond to a speech feature cluster identifier Dimitrios Dimitriadis, David C. Haws, Michael A. Picheny, Samuel Thomas 2020-01-28 $1,679,000
10468031 Diarization driven by meta-information identified in discussion content Kenneth W. Church, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Petr Fousek, Miroslav Novak 2019-11-05 $4,028,000
10262260 Method and system for joint training of hybrid neural networks for acoustic modeling in automatic speech recognition Hagen Soltau 2019-04-16 $3,839,000
10249292 Using long short-term memory recurrent neural network for speaker diarization segmentation Dimitrios Dimitriadis, David C. Haws, Michael A. Picheny, Samuel Thomas 2019-04-02 $2,364,000
9858919 Speaker adaptation of neural network acoustic models using I-vectors 2018-01-02 $1,907,000
9704482 Method and system for order-free spoken term detection Brian E. D. Kingsbury, Lidia Mangu, Michael A. Picheny 2017-07-11 $1,748,000
9697830 Method and system for order-free spoken term detection Brian E. D. Kingsbury, Lidia Mangu, Michael A. Picheny 2017-07-04
9665823 Method and system for joint training of hybrid neural networks for acoustic modeling in automatic speech recognition Hagen Soltau 2017-05-30 $1,983,000
9378464 Discriminative learning via hierarchical transformations Sasha P. Caskey, Dimitri Kanevsky, Brian E. D. Kingsbury, Tara N. Sainath 2016-06-28 $5,648,000