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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Robert J. Littrell — 37 Patents

VTVesper Technologies: 16 patents #1 of 10Top 10%
Qualcomm: 16 patents #1,365 of 12,104Top 15%
University of Michigan: 8 patents #201 of 4,352Top 5%
Belmont, MA: #39 of 1,163 inventorsTop 4%
Massachusetts: #2,185 of 88,656 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #88,321 of 4,157,543Top 3%
37 Patents All Time
Robert J. Littrell has been granted 37 US patents while listed as an inventor at Vesper Technologies. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in October 2025. Robert J. Littrell ranks #88,321 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.1%). Patent records list Robert J. Littrell in Belmont, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2013 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2023.peak 72013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152017: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 2 patents2020: 4 patents20202021: 4 patents2022: 5 patents20222023: 7 patents2024: 7 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 37 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12445782 Piezoelectric mems device for producing a signal indicative of detection of an acoustic stimulus Ronald J. Gagnon, Karl Grosh 2025-10-14
12405622 Voltage detector in data communication interface Bengt Stefan Gustavsson, Louis Dominic Oliveira, Tomer Saraf, Ganesh Kiran, William Wei-Ting KUO 2025-09-02
12216746 Biometric authentication using voice accelerometer Mathew Crowley 2025-02-04
12058939 Piezoelectric MEMS microphone Karl Grosh 2024-08-06
12010488 Microphone having a digital output determined at different power consumption levels 2024-06-11 $20,939,000
11950052 Acoustic transducer with gap-controlling geometry and method of manufacturing an acoustic transducer Karl Grosh 2024-04-02 $17,562,000
11930334 Piezoelectric MEMS device with an adaptive threshold for detection of an acoustic stimulus Michael Carfore, Shuwan Xue 2024-03-12 $19,478,000
11899039 Piezoelectric accelerometer with wake function 2024-02-13 $17,908,000
11892466 Piezoelectric accelerometer with wake function 2024-02-06 $12,962,000
11871664 Staggering of openings in electrodes for crack mitigation Karl Grosh 2024-01-09 $10,356,000
11800299 Transducer system with configurable acoustic overload point Ronald Gagnon 2023-10-24 $8,614,000
11726105 Piezoelectric accelerometer with wake function 2023-08-15 $7,580,000
11716906 MEMS process power 2023-08-01 $12,988,000
11696078 Robust MEMS microphone Craig Core, Hamid Basaeri 2023-07-04
11665968 Piezoelectric MEMS microphone Karl Grosh 2023-05-30
11617048 Microphone having a digital output determined at different power consumption levels 2023-03-28 $12,086,000
11617041 Piezoelectric MEMS device for producing a signal indicative of detection of an acoustic stimulus Ronald Gagnon, Karl Grosh 2023-03-28 $12,086,000
11438706 Robust MEMS microphone Craig Core, Hamid Basaeri 2022-09-06
11418882 Piezoelectric MEMS device with an adaptive threshold for detection of an acoustic stimulus Michael Carfore, Shuwan Xue 2022-08-16
11363387 Transducer system with configurable acoustic overload point Ronald Gagnon 2022-06-14
11259124 Acoustic transducer with gap-controlling geometry and method of manufacturing an acoustic transducer Karl Grosh 2022-02-22
11217741 MEMS process power 2022-01-04
11099078 Acoustic sensor with temperature structure Yu Hui, Craig Core, Ronald Gagnon 2021-08-24
11088315 Piezoelectric MEMS microphone Karl Grosh 2021-08-10
10964880 Piezoelectric MEMS microphone Karl Grosh 2021-03-30