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Franz Gerl — 9 Patents

Microsoft: 6 patents #7,433 of 40,388Top 20%
HGHarman Becker Automotive Systems Gmbh: 2 patents #129 of 446Top 30%
HIHarman International Industries, Incorporated: 1 patents #569 of 1,027Top 60%
Neu-Ulm, DE: #26 of 315 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Franz Gerl has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in December 2016. Franz Gerl ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Franz Gerl in Neu-Ulm, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2012.peak 22008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents20102012: 2 patents20122013: 1 patents20132014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9530432 Method for determining the presence of a wanted signal component Tobias Herbig 2016-12-27 $5,152,000
9026438 Detecting barge-in in a speech dialogue system Markus Buck, Tim Haulick, Tobias Herbig, Gerhard Uwe Schmidt, Matthias Schulz 2015-05-05 $3,908,000
8706483 Partial speech reconstruction Tobias Herbig, Mohamed Krini, Gerhard Uwe Schmidt 2014-04-22 $4,765,000
8666743 Speech recognition method for selecting a combination of list elements via a speech input Markus Schwarz, Matthias Schulz, Marc Biedert, Christian Hillebrecht, Udo Haiber 2014-03-04 $5,772,000
8346551 Method for adapting a codebook for speech recognition Tobias Herbig 2013-01-01
8131544 System for distinguishing desired audio signals from noise Tobias Herbig, Oliver Gaupp 2012-03-06 $18,672,000
8106285 Speech-driven selection of an audio file Daniel Willett, Raymond Brueckner 2012-01-31
7842873 Speech-driven selection of an audio file Daniel Willett, Raymond Brueckner 2010-11-30
7392182 Speech recognition system Gerhard Nuessle, Harald Bernd Enderle 2008-06-24 $16,730,000