Patents by Inventor Peter Blouw

Peter Blouw has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11741098
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems for storing and querying database entries with neuromorphic computers. The system is comprised of a plurality of encoding subsystems that convert database entries and search keys into vector representations, a plurality of associative memory subsystems that match vector representations of search keys to vector representations of database entries using spike-based comparison operations, a plurality of binding subsystems that update retrieved vector representations during the execution of hierarchical queries, a plurality of unbinding subsystems that extract information from retrieved vector representations, a plurality of cleanup subsystems that remove noise from these retrieved representations, and one or more input search key representations that propagates spiking activity through the associative memory, binding, unbinding, cleanup, and readout subsystems to retrieve database entries matching the search key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: APPLIED BRAIN RESEARCH INC.
    Inventors: Aaron Russell Voelker, Christopher David Eliasmith, Peter Blouw
  • Publication number: 20220138382
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems for simulating and predicting dynamical systems with vector symbolic representations of continuous spaces. More specifically, the present invention specifies methods for simulating and predicting such dynamics through the definition of temporal fractional binding, collection, and decoding subsystems that collectively function to both create vector symbolic representations of multi-object trajectories, and decode these representations to simulate or predict the future states of these trajectories. Systems composed of one or more of these temporal fractional binding, collection, and decoding subsystems are combined to simulate or predict the behavior of at least one dynamical system that involves the motion of at least one object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron Russell VOELKER, Christopher David ELIASMITH, Peter BLOUW, Terrance STEWART, NICOLE SANDRA-YAFFE DUMONT
  • Publication number: 20210133190
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems for storing and querying database entries with neuromorphic computers. The system is comprised of a plurality of encoding subsystems that convert database entries and search keys into vector representations, a plurality of associative memory subsystems that match vector representations of search keys to vector representations of database entries using spike-based comparison operations, a plurality of binding subsystems that update retrieved vector representations during the execution of hierarchical queries, a plurality of unbinding subsystems that extract information from retrieved vector representations, a plurality of cleanup subsystems that remove noise from these retrieved representations, and one or more input search key representations that propagates spiking activity through the associative memory, binding, unbinding, cleanup, and readout subsystems to retrieve database entries matching the search key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Aaron Russell VOELKER, Christopher David ELIASMITH, Peter Blouw
  • Patent number: 10860630
    Abstract: A system for generating and performing inference over graphs of sentences standing in directed discourse relations to one another, comprising a computer process, and a computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for providing: tree-structured encoder networks that convert an input sentence or a query into a vector representation; tree-structured decoder networks that convert a vector representation into a predicted sentence standing in a specified discourse relation to the input sentence; couplings of encoder and decoder networks that permit an input sentence and a “query” sentence to constrain a decoder network to predict a novel sentence that satisfies a specific discourse relation and thereby implements an instance of graph traversal; couplings of encoder and decoder networks that implement traversal over graphs of multiple linguistic relations, including entailment, contradiction, explanation, elaboration, contrast, and parallelism, for the purposes of answering questions or performin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Brain Research Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Blouw, Christopher David Eliasmith
  • Publication number: 20190370389
    Abstract: A system for generating and performing inference over graphs of sentences standing in directed discourse relations to one another, comprising a computer process, and a computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for providing: tree-structured encoder networks that convert an input sentence or a query into a vector representation; tree-structured decoder networks that convert a vector representation into a predicted sentence standing in a specified discourse relation to the input sentence; couplings of encoder and decoder networks that permit an input sentence and a “query” sentence to constrain a decoder network to predict a novel sentence that satisfies a specific discourse relation and thereby implements an instance of graph traversal; couplings of encoder and decoder networks that implement traversal over graphs of multiple linguistic relations, including entailment, contradiction, explanation, elaboration, contrast, and parallelism, for the purposes of answering questions or performin
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Blouw, Christopher David Eliasmith