Patents Examined by Nicholas Shine
  • Patent number: 12682228
    Abstract: A semiconductor process prediction method and a semiconductor process prediction apparatus considering overall features and local features are provided. The semiconductor manufacturing process prediction method includes the following steps. Several equipment sensing curves are obtained. The equipment sensing curves are filtered to reduce the co-linearity of the equipment sensing curves. A Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) procedure is performed to align the equipment sensing curves. The equipment sensing curves which are aligned are inputted into a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model to obtain a first prediction result considering the local features. A statistical analysis procedure is performed on the equipment sensing curves to obtain several statistical data. The statistical data are inputted into an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model to obtain a second prediction result considering the overall features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Hsin-Ming Hou
  • Patent number: 12682023
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for published content protection is provided. The present invention may include receiving a content file from a content management system (CMS). The present invention may include extracting a feature from the received content file. The present invention may include transforming, using an adversarial generation algorithm, the received content file into an adversarial content file. The present invention may include returning the adversarial content file to the CMS. The returned adversarial content file may represent an equivalent of the received content file to a content consumer. The present invention may include preventing an application of the returned adversarial content file in at least one machine learning task based on the adversarial noise included in the returned adversarial content file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hessel Tuinhof, Killian Levacher, Stefano Braghin
  • Patent number: 12675717
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating user-specific self-executing data structures are described. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least a processor. The memory includes instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive a user profile comprising a plurality of user related data associated with a user, analyze the plurality of user related data, determine at least one user designation associated with the user as a function of the analyzing the plurality of user related data, and generate a self-executing record as a function of the user designation for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Inventor: Linda Lee Richter
  • Patent number: 12664420
    Abstract: Methods and systems for training a neural network include training language-specific teacher models using different respective source language datasets. A student model is trained, using the different respective source language datasets and soft labels generated by the language-specific teacher models, including shuffling the source language datasets and shuffling weights of language-dependent layers in language-specific parts of the student model. Weights of language-independent layers of the student model are copied to a language-independent layers of a target model to initialize language-independent layers of the target model. The target model is trained with a target language dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Fukuda, Samuel Thomas
  • Patent number: 12579449
    Abstract: A method includes building a mud-gas hydrocarbon oil fraction database comprising historical data, training a machine learning model using the historical data in the mud-gas hydrocarbon oil fraction database, drilling a new wellbore, processing drilling mud returns, from the new wellbore, through a gas sampler comprising a gas chromatograph and a gas mass spectrometer, retrieving real-time mud-gas data from the gas sampler, and generating a real-time hydrocarbon oil fraction log for the new wellbore by processing the real-time mud-gas data through the trained machine learning model and producing estimated hydrocarbon oil fraction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Fatai A. Anifowose, Mokhles M. Mezghani, Vladislav Torlov
  • Patent number: 12572440
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automatically detecting workload type-related information in storage systems using machine learning techniques are provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Deepak Nagarajegowda
  • Patent number: 12561554
    Abstract: A device and method for machine learning using an artificial neural network. For a calculation hardware for the artificial neural network, a layer description is provided, which defines at least one part of a layer of the artificial neural network, the layer description defining a tensor for input values of at least one part of this layer, a tensor for weights of at least one part of this layer, and a tensor for output values of at least one part of this layer, in particular of its starting address. A message that includes a start address of the tensor for the input values, or of the tensor for the weighs, or of the tensor for the output values is sent by the calculation hardware for transfer of the input values, or the weights, or the output values, is sent by the calculation hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian Vogel, Christoph Schorn, Michael Klaiber
  • Patent number: 12536428
    Abstract: Training a machine learning model can include receiving time series data. A knowledge graph structure can be received including nodes and edges, the nodes representing entities associated with the time series data, the edges representing relationships between the nodes connected by the edges. A machine learning model can be structured to forecast a prediction using the time series data. The machine learning model can be structured to integrate the knowledge graph structure as an error term in the machine learning model. The machine learning model can be trained to forecast the prediction based on the time series data and the knowledge graph structure. The error term representing the knowledge graph structure can be regularized for sparsity during training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yada Zhu, Yang Zhang, Pin-Yu Chen, Rahul Mazumder, Shibal Ibrahim, Wenyu Chen
  • Patent number: 12533800
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an action selection policy neural network used to select an action to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, a method includes: receiving a latent representation characterizing a current state of the environment; generating a trajectory of latent representations that starts with the received latent representation; for each latent representation in the trajectory: determining a predicted reward; and processing the state latent representation using a value neural network to generate a predicted state value; determining a corresponding target state value for each latent representation in the trajectory; determining, based on the target state values, an update to the current values of the policy neural network parameters; and determining an update to the current values of the value neural network parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Danijar Hafner, Mohammad Norouzi, Timothy Paul Lillicrap
  • Patent number: 12530602
    Abstract: A system for scoring user conversation satisfaction. The system comprises one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute instructions to perform operations. The operations comprising receiving data corresponding to a conversation between the user and a third-party service provider. The operations further comprising parsing the data into conversation subsets, and analyzing each respective subset with a first model. The operations further comprising determining a user conversation satisfaction score based on the first model analyzed subset; storing, in a database, the parsed data subsets, and the determined conversation satisfaction score; and training a second model with the data stored in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: FIDELITY INFORMATION SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron David Colcord, Jameson Pierre Woodfin
  • Patent number: 12511532
    Abstract: Conventionally, chiller power consumption has been optimized by using a Cooling Load based Control (CLC) approach which does not consider the impact of one control strategy on the other. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide reinforcement learning (RL) based control strategy to perform both chiller ON/OFF sequencing as well as setpoint leaving chilled water temperature (LCWT) scheduling. A RL agent is trained using a re-trained transfer learning (TL) model and LCWT, return chilled water temperature of target chillers and ambient temperature of building are read for determining required cooling load to be provided by target chiller(s) based on which the target chillers are scheduled for turning ON/OFF. Transfer learning-based approach is implemented by present disclosure to predict power consumed by a chiller at some setpoint by using a model trained on similar chillers which were operated at that setpoint since the chillers are usually run at a single setpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Praveen Manoharan, Malini Pooni Venkat, Srinarayana Nagarathinam, Arunchandar Vasan
  • Patent number: 12499367
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a memory configured to store one instruction or more and a processor configured to obtain output data by inputting input data to an artificial intelligence model including a plurality of layers by executing the instruction, and the artificial intelligence model is configured to output the output data based on operation through the plurality of layers and the processor is configured to encode operation data output from one of the plurality of layers and store the encoded operation data in the memory, obtain recovery data corresponding to the operation data by decoding the encoded operation data stored in the memory, and provide the obtained recovery data to another layer from among the plurality of layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongsoo Lee, Sejung Kwon, Byeoungwook Kim
  • Patent number: 12488232
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for compressing a neural network are disclosed. An apparatus includes at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to: receive information from a second device, where the information comprises at least one parameter configured to be used for compression of a neural network, where the at least one parameter is in regard to at least one first aspect or task of the neural network; and compress the neural network, where the neural network is compressed based, at least partially, upon the at least one parameter received from the second device. The apparatus may also receive a compressed neural network from the second device, and further compress the compressed neural network based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Goutham Rangu, Hamed Rezazadegan Tavakoli, Francesco Cricri, Miska Matias Hannuksela, Emre Aksu