Al Vredeveld is a registered patent attorney and focuses on helping clients obtain patent protection for their inventions. Al also counsels clients regarding a variety of intellectual property issues, such as patent infringement, patent validity, portfolio management, and freedom to operate/right to use projects. Al has extensive experience in a variety of technical areas, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, video encoding, audio processing and encoding to enable 3D sound perception, hearing aid technology, graphics processing, mixed reality, surgical devices and guidance, antenna design, wireless communication protocols, mechanical devices, and other technologies. With respect to artificial intelligence technologies, Al has worked on patent applications such as fundamental models, large language models, graph neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and many other machine learning techniques.  Minnesota Super Lawyers identified Al as a 2010 Rising Star.