Patents by Inventor Saber A. AKHONDI

Saber A. AKHONDI 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).

  • Publication number: 20230394317
    Abstract: A method for text mining from one or more tables is provided. The method includes the steps of: receiving one or more tables, the tables having one or more table labels, and one or more cells to be processed, transforming each of the cells into cell vector representations; encoding the one or more cell vector representations with a sequential 2D model; obtaining one or more table-level vector representations by summarising the semantics of the cell vector representations by an image classification model; and mapping the output of to an output vector which represents the probability of each of the table labels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Zenan ZHAI, Cornelia Maria VERSPOOR, Trevor Anthony COHN, Camilio THORNE, Saber AKHONDI, Christian DRUCKENBRODT
  • Patent number: 11537788
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory media for training a chemical entity recognition system to extract chemical compounds from a patent document and determine a relevance of the chemical compounds to the patent document are disclosed. A method includes obtaining patent documents from patent databases, normalizing each patent document into a unified format, and generating a chemical patent corpus. The chemical patent corpus includes chemical entities, each having relevancy annotations that indicate a relevance to the patent document from which the chemical entity is extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: Elsevier, Inc.
    Inventors: Saber A. Akhondi, Hinnerk Rey, Markus Schwoerer, Heike Nau, Gabriele Ilchmann, Matthias Irmer, Claudia Bobach
  • Publication number: 20210004586
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory media for training a chemical entity recognition system to extract chemical compounds from a patent document and determine a relevance of the chemical compounds to the patent document are disclosed. A method includes obtaining patent documents from patent databases, normalizing each patent document into a unified format, and generating a chemical patent corpus. The chemical patent corpus includes chemical entities, each having relevancy annotations that indicate a relevance to the patent document from which the chemical entity is extracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: Elsevier, Inc.
    Inventors: Saber A. AKHONDI, Hinnerk REY, Markus SCHWOERER, Heike NAU, Gabriele ILCHMANN, Matthias IRMER, Claudia BOBACH