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Daniel Willett — 22 Patents

Microsoft: 19 patents #1,867 of 40,388Top 5%
HGHarman Becker Automotive Systems Gmbh: 2 patents #129 of 446Top 30%
INIngersoll-Rand: 1 patents #412 of 828Top 50%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Daniel Willett has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in May 2024. Daniel Willett ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Daniel Willett in Eltville am Rhein, MA, DE.

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Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11990135 Methods and apparatus for hybrid speech recognition processing Joel Praveen Pinto, William F. Ganong, III 2024-05-21 $471,696,000
11972753 System and method for performing automatic speech recognition system parameter adjustment via machine learning Yang Sun, Paul Joseph Vozila, Puming Zhan 2024-04-30 $380,287,000
10971157 Methods and apparatus for hybrid speech recognition processing Joel Praveen Pinto, William F. Ganong, III 2021-04-06 $53,768,000
10810996 System and method for performing automatic speech recognition system parameter adjustment via machine learning Yang Sun, Paul Joseph Vozila, Puming Zhan 2020-10-20 $24,864,000
10785173 System and method for suggesting actions based upon incoming messages William F. Ganong, III 2020-09-22 $24,841,000
10650805 Method for scoring in an automatic speech recognition system Joel Praveen Pinto, Christian Plahl 2020-05-12 $42,124,000
10229701 Server-side ASR adaptation to speaker, device and noise condition via non-ASR audio transmission Jean-Guy E. Dahan, William F. Ganong, III, Jianxiong Wu 2019-03-12 $8,857,000
10186256 Method and apparatus for exploiting language skill information in automatic speech recognition Weiying Li 2019-01-22 $14,008,000
10049658 Method for training an automatic speech recognition system Joel Praveen Pinto, Josef Anastasiadis 2018-08-14 $15,563,000
9984676 Feature normalization inputs to front end processing for automatic speech recognition Dermot Connolly 2018-05-29 $12,734,000
9953638 Meta-data inputs to front end processing for automatic speech recognition Karl Jonas Lööf, Yue Pan, Joel Praveen Pinto, Christian Gollan 2018-04-24 $8,462,000
9886944 Hybrid controller for ASR Jianxiong Wu, Paul Joseph Vozila, William F. Ganong, III 2018-02-06 $13,792,000
9679560 Server-side ASR adaptation to speaker, device and noise condition via non-ASR audio transmission Jean-Guy E. Dahan, William F. Ganong, III, Jianxiong Wu 2017-06-13 $5,131,000
9478216 Guest speaker robust adapted speech recognition Lambert Mathias, Chuang He, Jianxiong Wu 2016-10-25 $9,851,000
9406299 Differential acoustic model representation and linear transform-based adaptation for efficient user profile update techniques in automatic speech recognition Christian Gollan 2016-08-02 $7,112,000
9280979 Online maximum-likelihood mean and variance normalization for speech recognition 2016-03-08 $20,315,000
9037463 Efficient exploitation of model complementariness by low confidence re-scoring in automatic speech recognition Venkatesh Nagesha 2015-05-19 $5,958,000
8996368 Online maximum-likelihood mean and variance normalization for speech recognition 2015-03-31 $8,508,000
8843370 Joint discriminative training of multiple speech recognizers Chuang He 2014-09-23 $18,316,000
8106285 Speech-driven selection of an audio file Franz Gerl, Raymond Brueckner 2012-01-31
7842873 Speech-driven selection of an audio file Franz Gerl, Raymond Brueckner 2010-11-30
4276459 Paddle switch safety button John Boothroyd, William F. Langlais 1981-06-30 $2,964,000