Patents by Inventor Animashree Anandkumar

Animashree Anandkumar 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: 12718469
    Abstract: In various examples, bi-directional projection techniques may be used to generate enhanced Bird's-Eye View (BEV) representations. For example, a system(s) may generate one or more BEV features associated with a BEV of an environment using a projection process that associates 2D image features to one or more first locations of a 3D space. At least partially using the BEV feature(s), the system(s) may determine one or more second locations of the 3D space that correspond to one or more regions of interest in the environment. The system(s) may then generate one or more additional BEV features corresponding to the second location(s) using a different projection process that associates the second location(s) from the 3D space to at least a portion of the 2D image features. The system(s) may then generate an updated BEV of the environment based at least on the BEV feature(s) and/or the additional BEV feature(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Zhiqi Li, Zhiding Yu, Animashree Anandkumar, Jose Manuel Alvarez Lopez
  • Publication number: 20260237074
    Abstract: Class agnostic object mask generation uses a vision transformer-based auto-labeling framework requiring only images and object bounding boxes to generate object (segmentation) masks. The generated object masks, images, and object labels may then be used to train instance segmentation models or other neural networks to localize and segment objects with pixel-level accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2026
    Publication date: August 13, 2026
    Inventors: Shiyi Lan, Zhiding Yu, Subhashree Radhakrishnan, Jose Manuel Alvarez Lopez, Animashree Anandkumar
  • Publication number: 20260195983
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence framework is described that incorporates a number of neural networks and a number of transformers for converting a two-dimensional image into three-dimensional semantic information. According to at least one embodiment, neural networks convert one or more images into a set of image feature maps, depth information associated with the one or more images, and query proposals based on the depth information, a first transformer implements a cross-attention mechanism to process the set of image feature maps in accordance with the query proposals, and a second transformer implements a self-attention mechanism to convert the initial voxel features into refined voxel features, which are up-sampled and processed by a lightweight neural network to generate the three-dimensional semantic information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2026
    Publication date: July 9, 2026
    Inventors: Yiming Li, Zhiding Yu, Christopher B. Choy, Chaowei Xiao, Jose Manuel Alvarez Lopez, Sanja Fidler, Animashree Anandkumar
  • Publication number: 20260162359
    Abstract: A technique for reconstructing a three-dimensional scene from monocular video adaptively allocates an explicit sparse-dense voxel grid with dense voxel blocks around surfaces in the scene and sparse voxel blocks further from the surfaces. In contrast to conventional systems, the two-level voxel grid can be efficiently queried and sampled. In an embodiment, the scene surface geometry is represented as a signed distance field (SDF). Representation of the scene surface geometry can be extended to multi-modal data such as semantic labels and color. Because properties stored in the sparse-dense voxel grid structure are differentiable, the scene surface geometry can be optimized via differentiable volume rendering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2026
    Publication date: June 11, 2026
    Inventors: Christopher B. Choy, Or Litany, Charles Loop, Yuke Zhu, Animashree Anandkumar, Wei Dong
  • Patent number: 12651480
    Abstract: A machine learning model (MLM) may be trained and evaluated. Attribute-based performance metrics may be analyzed to identify attributes for which the MLM is performing below a threshold when each are present in a sample. A generative neural network (GNN) may be used to generate samples including compositions of the attributes, and the samples may be used to augment the data used to train the MLM. This may be repeated until one or more criteria are satisfied. In various examples, a temporal sequence of data items, such as frames of a video, may be generated which may form samples of the data set. Sets of attribute values may be determined based on one or more temporal scenarios to be represented in the data set, and one or more GNNs may be used to generate the sequence to depict information corresponding to the attribute values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Yuzhuo Ren, Weili Nie, Arash Vahdat, Animashree Anandkumar, Nishant Puri, Niranjan Avadhanam
  • Patent number: 12620170
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence framework is described that incorporates a number of neural networks and a number of transformers for converting a two-dimensional image into three-dimensional semantic information. Neural networks convert one or more images into a set of image feature maps, depth information associated with the one or more images, and query proposals based on the depth information. A first transformer implements a cross-attention mechanism to process the set of image feature maps in accordance with the query proposals. The output of the first transformer is combined with a mask token to generate initial voxel features of the scene. A second transformer implements a self-attention mechanism to convert the initial voxel features into refined voxel features, which are up-sampled and processed by a lightweight neural network to generate the three-dimensional semantic information, which may be used by, e.g., an autonomous vehicle for various advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Yiming Li, Zhiding Yu, Christopher B. Choy, Chaowei Xiao, Jose Manuel Alvarez Lopez, Sanja Fidler, Animashree Anandkumar
  • Patent number: 12614284
    Abstract: Class agnostic object mask generation uses a vision transformer-based auto-labeling framework requiring only images and object bounding boxes to generate object (segmentation) masks. The generated object masks, images, and object labels may then be used to train instance segmentation models or other neural networks to localize and segment objects with pixel-level accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Shiyi Lan, Zhiding Yu, Subhashree Radhakrishnan, Jose Manuel Alvarez Lopez, Animashree Anandkumar
  • Patent number: 12586293
    Abstract: A technique for reconstructing a three-dimensional scene from monocular video adaptively allocates an explicit sparse-dense voxel grid with dense voxel blocks around surfaces in the scene and sparse voxel blocks further from the surfaces. In contrast to conventional systems, the two-level voxel grid can be efficiently queried and sampled. In an embodiment, the scene surface geometry is represented as a signed distance field (SDF). Representation of the scene surface geometry can be extended to multi-modal data such as semantic labels and color. Because properties stored in the sparse-dense voxel grid structure are differentiable, the scene surface geometry can be optimized via differentiable volume rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher B. Choy, Or Litany, Charles Loop, Yuke Zhu, Animashree Anandkumar, Wei Dong
  • Publication number: 20260004873
    Abstract: In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a method for generating a geometrical structure of a binding complex formed between a protein and a ligand. In some embodiments, the method comprises sampling an initial geometrical structure of the binding complex from a geometry prior. In some embodiments, the method comprises denoising, using a machine-learned stochastic differential equation (SDE), the initial geometrical structure to generate the geometrical structure of the binding complex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2025
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Inventors: Weili NIE, Arash VAHDAT, Zhuoran QIAO, Thomas F. MILLER, Animashree ANANDKUMAR, Matthew G. WELBORN
  • Publication number: 20250128021
    Abstract: Systems and methods for altering the geometry of a fluid channel to prevent upstream mobility of bacteria, using angled obstacles on the interior of the channel that among other things creates vortices that restrict the mobility. An optimized geometry can be realized by an artificial intelligence algorithm or similar methods based on performance of various configurations of obstacle parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Tingtao ZHOU, Xuan WAN, Paul W. STERNBERG, Chiara DARAIO, Zhengyu HUANG, Zongyi LI, Zhiwei PENG, John F. BRADY, Animashree ANANDKUMAR
  • Publication number: 20250111552
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that train a content frame-motion latent diffusion model (CDM) and use the CDM to generate requested videos. The CMD may be a two-stage framework that first compresses videos to a succinct latent space and then learns the video distribution in this latent space. For instance, the CMD may include an autoencoder and two diffusion models. In a first stage, using the autoencoder, a low-dimensional latent decomposition into a content frame and latent motion representation is learned. In the second stage, without adding any new parameters, the content frame distribution may be fine-tuned by using a pretrained image diffusion model, which allows the CMD to leverage the rich visual knowledge in pretrained image diffusion models. In addition, a new lightweight diffusion model may be used to generate motion latent representations that are conditioned on the given content frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Sihyun Yu, Weili Nie, De-An Huang, Boyi Li, Animashree Anandkumar
  • Patent number: 12220539
    Abstract: Systems and methods for altering the geometry of a fluid channel to prevent upstream mobility of bacteria, using angled obstacles on the interior of the channel that among other things creates vortices that restrict the mobility. An optimized geometry can be realized by an artificial intelligence algorithm or similar methods based on performance of various configurations of obstacle parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tingtao Zhou, Xuan Wan, Paul W. Sternberg, Chiara Daraio, Zhengyu Huang, Zongyi Li, Zhiwei Peng, John F. Brady, Animashree Anandkumar
  • Publication number: 20250018148
    Abstract: Systems and methods for altering the geometry of a fluid channel to prevent upstream mobility of bacteria, using angled obstacles on the interior of the channel that among other things creates vortices that restrict the mobility. An optimized geometry can be realized by an artificial intelligence algorithm or similar methods based on performance of various configurations of obstacle parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Tingtao ZHOU, Xuan WAN, Paul W. STERNBERG, Chiara DARAIO, Zhengyu HUANG, Zongyi LI, Zhiwei PENG, John F. BRADY, Animashree ANANDKUMAR
  • Publication number: 20240412491
    Abstract: Apparatuses, system, and techniques use one or more first neural networks to generate one or more synthetic data to train one or more second neural networks based, at least in part, on one or more performance metrics of one or more second neural networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Shagan Sah, Nishant Puri, Yuzhuo Ren, Rajath Bellipady Shetty, Weili Nie, Arash Vahdat, Animashree Anandkumar
  • Patent number: 12165258
    Abstract: One or more machine learning models (MLMs) may learn implicit 3D representations of geometry of an object and of dynamics of the object from performing an action on the object. Implicit neural representations may be used to reconstruct high-fidelity full geometry of the object and predict a flow-based dynamics field from one or more images, which may provide a partial view of the object. Correspondences between locations of an object may be learned based at least on distances between the locations on a surface corresponding to the object, such as geodesic distances. The distances may be incorporated into a contrastive learning loss function to train one or more MLMs to learn correspondences between locations of the object, such as a correspondence embedding field. The correspondences may be used to evaluate state changes when evaluating one or more actions that may be performed on the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Yuke Zhu, Bokui Shen, Christopher Bongsoo Choy, Animashree Anandkumar
  • Patent number: 12159694
    Abstract: A machine learning framework is described for performing generation of candidate molecules for, e.g., drug discovery or other applications. The framework utilizes a pre-trained encoder-decoder model to interface between representations of molecules and embeddings for those molecules in a latent space. A fusion module is located between the encoder and decoder and is used to fuse an embedding for an input molecule with embeddings for one or more exemplary molecules selected from a database that is constructed according to a design criteria. The fused embedding is decoded using the decoder to generate a candidate molecule. The fusion module is trained to reconstruct a nearest neighbor to the input molecule from the database based on the sample of exemplary molecules. An iterative approach may be used during inference to dynamically update the database to include newly generated candidate molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Weili Nie, Zichao Wang, Chaowei Xiao, Animashree Anandkumar
  • Publication number: 20240378799
    Abstract: In various examples, bi-directional projection techniques may be used to generate enhanced Bird's-Eye View (BEV) representations. For example, a system(s) may generate one or more BEV features associated with a BEV of an environment using a projection process that associates 2D image features to one or more first locations of a 3D space. At least partially using the BEV feature(s), the system(s) may determine one or more second locations of the 3D space that correspond to one or more regions of interest in the environment. The system(s) may then generate one or more additional BEV features corresponding to the second location(s) using a different projection process that associates the second location(s) from the 3D space to at least a portion of the 2D image features. The system(s) may then generate an updated BEV of the environment based at least on the BEV feature(s) and/or the additional BEV feature(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Zhiqi Li, Zhiding Yu, Animashree Anandkumar, Jose Manuel Alvarez Lopez
  • Patent number: 12128189
    Abstract: Systems and methods for altering the geometry of a fluid channel to prevent upstream mobility of bacteria, using angled obstacles on the interior of the channel that among other things creates vortices that restrict the mobility. An optimized geometry can be realized by an artificial intelligence algorithm or similar methods based on performance of various configurations of obstacle parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tingtao Zhou, Xuan Wan, Paul W. Sternberg, Chiara Daraio, Zhengyu Huang, Zongyi Li, Zhiwei Peng, John F. Brady, Animashree Anandkumar
  • Publication number: 20240307654
    Abstract: Systems and methods for altering the geometry of a fluid channel to prevent upstream mobility of bacteria, using angled obstacles on the interior of the channel that among other things creates vortices that restrict the mobility. An optimized geometry can be realized by an artificial intelligence algorithm or similar methods based on performance of various configurations of obstacle parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Tingtao ZHOU, Xuan WAN, Paul W. STERNBERG, Chiara DARAIO, Zhengyu HUANG, Zongyi LI, Zhiwei PENG, John F. BRADY, Animashree ANANDKUMAR
  • Publication number: 20240265690
    Abstract: A vision-language model learns skills and domain knowledge via distinct and separate task-specific neural networks, referred to as experts. Each expert is independently optimized for a specific task, facilitating the use of domain-specific data and architectures that are not feasible with a single large neural network trained for multiple tasks. The vision-language model implemented as an ensemble of pre-trained experts and is more efficiently trained compared with the single large neural network. During training, the vision-language model integrates specialized skills and domain knowledge, rather than trying to simultaneously learn multiple tasks, resulting in effective multi-modal learning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Animashree Anandkumar, Linxi Fan, Zhiding Yu, Chaowei Xiao, Shikun Liu