Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

William T. Laaser

26Patents
7h-index
26Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 14, 2006 → Jul 31, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9990678B1 Systems methods and articles of manufacture for assessing trustworthiness of electronic tax return data Physics 62 Active
US8280723B1 Technique for comparing a string to large sets of strings Physics 47 Active
US8150161B2 Technique for correcting character-recognition errors Physics 42 Active
US8774471B1 Technique for recognizing personal objects and accessing associated information Physics 33 Active
US10013721B1 Identification of electronic tax return errors based on declarative constraints Physics 18 Active
US7606835B2 Automatic rules driven data visualization selection Physics 14 Active
US10255641B1 Predictive model based identification of potential errors in electronic tax return Physics 8 Active
US11354755B2 Methods systems and articles of manufacture for using a predictive model to determine tax topics which are relevant to a taxpayer in preparing an electronic tax return Physics 5 Active
US8571981B1 Method and system for establishing electronic financial transactions between entities Physics 4 Active
US8714447B1 Identifying and correcting invalid identifiers Physics 2 Active
US9633476B1 Method and apparatus for using augmented reality for business graphics Physics 2 Active
US10740853B1 Systems for allocating resources based on electronic tax return preparation program user characteristics Physics 2 Active
US9213893B2 Extracting data from semi-structured electronic documents Physics 1 Active
US11126893B1 System and method for increasing efficiency of gradient descent while training machine-learning models Physics 1 Active
US10915972B1 Predictive model based identification of potential errors in electronic tax return Physics 1 Active
US10970793B1 Methods systems and articles of manufacture for tailoring a user experience in preparing an electronic tax return Physics 1 Active
US11049190B2 System and method for automatically generating calculations for fields in compliance forms Physics 1 Active
US10475131B1 Methods, systems and computer program products for calculating an estimated result of a tax return Physics 1 Active
US11321691B2 System and method to enable payment using mark generation and mobile device Physics 0 Active
US10937109B1 Method and technique to calculate and provide confidence score for predicted tax due/refund Physics 0 Active
US11763151B2 System and method for increasing efficiency of gradient descent while training machine-learning models Physics 0 Active
US10410196B1 System and method to enable payment using mark generation and mobile device Physics 0 Active
US8315924B1 Method and apparatus for automating accounting with check vouchers Physics 0 Active
US11663677B2 System and method for automatically generating calculations for fields in compliance forms Physics 0 Active
US12050995B2 System and method for increasing efficiency of gradient descent while training machine-learning models Physics 0 Active

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