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James G. Droppo — 56 Patents

Microsoft: 47 patents #384 of 40,388Top 1%
Amazon: 6 patents #2,730 of 19,158Top 15%
Carnation, WA: #5 of 210 inventorsTop 3%
Washington: #903 of 76,902 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #44,020 of 4,157,543Top 2%
56 Patents All Time
James G. Droppo has been granted 56 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in December 2025. James G. Droppo ranks #44,020 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list James G. Droppo in Carnation, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 56 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12488798 Continuous learning for machine learning models Aaron Eakin, Ariya Rastrow, Gurpreet Singh Chadha, Pankaj Sitpure, Buddha Puneeth Nandanoor +8 more 2025-12-02
12308045 Acoustic event detection Qingming Tang, Chieh-Chi Kao, Qin Zhang, Ming Sun, Chao Wang +3 more 2025-05-20
12211517 Endpointing in speech processing Roland Maximilian Rolf Maas, Bjorn Hoffmeister, Ariya Rastrow, Veerdhawal Pande, Maarten Van Segbroeck +3 more 2025-01-28
12087320 Acoustic event detection Qin Zhang, Qingming Tang, Ming Sun, Chao Wang, Steve Mark Lorusso +4 more 2024-09-10 $381,332,000
11790932 Acoustic event detection Qingming Tang, Chieh-Chi Kao, Qin Zhang, Ming Sun, Chao Wang +3 more 2023-10-17 $201,336,000
11580955 Synthetic speech processing Yixiong Meng, Roberto Barra Chicote, Grzegorz Beringer, Zeya Chen, Jie Liang +2 more 2023-02-14 $171,873,000
11049006 Computing system for training neural networks John Langford, Gang Li, Frank Torsten Bernd Seide, Dong-Sheng Yu 2021-06-29 $257,930,000
10885438 Self-stabilized deep neural network Pegah Ghahremani, Avner May 2021-01-05 $130,101,000
10629193 Advancing word-based speech recognition processing Guoli Ye, Jinyu Li, Rui Zhao, Yifan Gong 2020-04-21 $75,244,000
10558909 Linearly augmented neural network Pegah Ghahremani, Michael L. Seltzer 2020-02-11 $73,871,000
10460727 Multi-talker speech recognizer Xuedong Huang, Dong-Sheng Yu 2019-10-29 $67,573,000
9824684 Prediction-based sequence recognition Dong Yu, Yu Zhang, Michael L. Seltzer 2017-11-21 $35,505,000
9786284 Dual-band speech encoding and estimating a narrowband speech feature from a wideband speech feature Alejandro Acero, Michael L. Seltzer 2017-10-10 $29,796,000
9779727 Mixed speech recognition Dong-Sheng Yu, Chao Weng, Michael L. Seltzer 2017-10-03 $44,178,000
9558742 Mixed speech recognition Dong-Sheng Yu, Chao Weng, Michael L. Seltzer 2017-01-31 $33,507,000
9390712 Mixed speech recognition Dong Yu, Chao Weng, Michael L. Seltzer 2016-07-12 $36,196,000
9082403 Spoken utterance classification training for a speech recognition system Yun-Cheng Ju 2015-07-14 $44,931,000
9009039 Noise adaptive training for speech recognition Michael L. Seltzer, Ozlem Kalinli, Alejandro Acero 2015-04-14 $23,635,000
8818797 Dual-band speech encoding Alejandro Acero, Michael L. Seltzer 2014-08-26 $21,459,000
8615393 Noise suppressor for speech recognition Ivan Tashev, Alejandro Acero 2013-12-24 $75,678,000
8532985 Warped spectral and fine estimate audio encoding Michael L. Seltzer, Henrique S. Malvar, Alejandro Acero, Xing Fan 2013-09-10 $23,590,000
8401852 Utilizing features generated from phonic units in speech recognition Geoffrey G. Zweig, Patrick Nguyen, Alejandro Acero 2013-03-19 $16,508,000
8379891 Loudspeaker array design Ivan Tashev, Michael L. Seltzer, Alejandro Acero 2013-02-19 $10,297,000
8306817 Speech recognition with non-linear noise reduction on Mel-frequency cepstra Dong-Sheng Yu, Alejandro Acero, Li Deng 2012-11-06 $20,259,000
8180636 Pitch model for noise estimation Alejandro Acero, Luis Buera 2012-05-15 $19,036,000