Patents

Inventions I’ve been named on, mostly from a decade of work on ambient and on-device AI at Google, plus an earlier collaboration between BERG and Intel. Done with brilliant people — they’re credited below. Newest first.

Using simple masks for online expression

Pending · Google · WO2023003575A2

With Robert Marchant, Tríona Éidín Butler, Henry John Holland, Benjamin Guy Alexander Pawle, Michael Colville and George Joseph Rickerby.

Systems and methods for control of an acoustic environment

Granted 2024 · Google · US12067331B2

With Robert Marchant, Amelia Schladow, Philip Roadley-Battin and Henry John Holland.

Systems and methods for generating audio presentations

Pending · Google · US20230156401A1

With Robert Marchant, Phillip Roadley-Battin, Amelia Schladow and Henry John Holland.

Sensor based semantic object generation

Granted 2022 · Google · US11289084B2

With Tim Wantland, Donald A. Barnett, Christopher Breithaupt, Brett Aladdin Barros, Allison Lee Stanfield, Nicholas Aceves, Megan Elizabeth Fazio and Christopher Robert Conover.

System and method for providing an artificial intelligence control surface for a user of a computing device

Granted 2025 · Google · US20220291789A1

With Robert Marchant.

Systems and methods for interacting and interfacing with an artificial intelligence system

Granted 2022 · Google · US11500477B2

With Robert Marchant, Henry John Holland, Alexander George Hulme, Fiona Paula O’Leary and Julie Mareva Arrive.

Detection of user activities by a portable device

Published 2013 · Intel · WO2013055380A1

With Wendy March, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Rahul C. Shah, Carol A. Wilder, Jack Schulze, Nick Ludlam, Matthew W. Webb, Joseph A. Malia, Aaron D. Davies, Giuseppe Raffa and Lama Nachman.