Latest AI patents, Page 216
How the biggest tech companies are building AI: language models, assistants and agents, vision, voice, and the systems that train them. The artificial intelligence and machine learning patent applications we have broken down from the companies we track, newest first.
- in the Nov 12 release
- 96
- in November so far
- 188
- filings tracked
- 2,637
- sub-topics
- 10
Recent filings
Newest first · 2,637 total-
Microsoft · Published May 7
Microsoft Patents a Self-Reorganizing AI Agent Workflow System
Most AI agent pipelines run in a fixed order — Agent A, then B, then C — regardless of what they find along the way. Microsoft's new patent describes a system where the AI itself can reorder those agents mid-task based on what it's already discovered.
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Meta · Published May 7
Meta Patents an AI Image Editor That Picks Its Own Edit Tasks From Plain-Language Instructions
Instead of asking you to pick from a menu of filters or tools, Meta's new patent describes a system that reads what you want done in plain English — and figures out which editing operation to run on its own.
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents an AI Assistant That Balances Every User's Preferences at Once
When you ask a shared AI assistant something, whose preferences should it optimize for — yours, or everyone else in the room? Google's new patent tackles exactly that problem with a surprisingly elegant weighting system.
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents an AI System That Controls How Fast Your Content Feed Loads
Google wants an AI model to decide not just *what* shows up in your content feed — but *how fast* it delivers new items to you. It's a subtle but potentially powerful lever for keeping you engaged (or, in theory, helping you disengage).
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents a Schema-Guided Machine Learning System for Document Entity Extraction
Pulling structured data out of unstructured documents — invoices, contracts, medical forms — is one of those problems that sounds simple but has defeated software for decades. Google's latest patent describes a machine learning pipeline that approaches the problem systematically, using a target schema to guide what to extract and spatial coordinates to verify it got the right answer.
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents a Teacher-Student Framework for Training Smaller AI Models
This Google patent, co-invented by Geoffrey Hinton and Oriol Vinyals, covers one of the most influential ideas in modern AI: knowledge distillation — training a compact model to behave like a much larger one. The catch? This technique has been public since at least 2015.
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents an AI Gatekeeper That Decides Which Photos Are Worth Enhancing
Not every blurry photo deserves the full AI treatment — and Google is patenting a system smart enough to know the difference. Instead of running heavy enhancement algorithms on every image, this approach first asks: 'How much better could this actually get?'
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents a Two-Model System for Smarter AI Training Data Selection
Training a good AI model is only as good as the data you feed it — and most companies are drowning in low-quality pairs. Google's latest patent describes a clever two-model judging system that automatically scores which training examples are actually worth learning from.
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents On-Device AI Recommendation Engine for Television Apps
Google is filing patents for a TV recommendation system that builds and runs its personalization model entirely on your device — no user data sent to the cloud to figure out what you want to watch next.
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents a Teacher-Student Framework for Shrinking AI Models
What if you could take a massive, expensive AI model and compress its knowledge into a tiny one that runs cheaply on a phone? That's the core idea behind this Google patent on knowledge distillation — and its inventors include some of the biggest names in deep learning.
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents the 'Teacher-Student' AI Training Method Behind Model Compression
Three of the biggest names in deep learning — Hinton, Dean, and Vinyals — are on a Google patent for knowledge distillation, the technique that lets a tiny model learn the 'wisdom' of a massive one. This isn't a new idea, but Google is now formally staking a claim on it.
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents a Machine Learning System for Smarter Image Inpainting
Google is patenting a more principled way to train AI models that remove unwanted objects from photos — the kind of 'erase and fill' magic you already see in Pixel's Magic Eraser. The twist is in how the training pipeline itself is structured.
