Patents by Inventor Christine Nezda

Christine Nezda 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: 11914967
    Abstract: Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for determining an answer to a natural language question. A method can include receiving a question and a passage to be used to answer the question and executing (i) a first trained ML model, based on the passage and the question and in response to determining that the question, passage, or a combination thereof includes more than a first threshold number of out of vocabulary (OOV) words, relative to a general purpose language ML model, to generate a first answer to the question or (ii) executing a second trained ML model, based on the passage and the question and in response to determining the question, passage, or a combination thereof includes less than the first threshold number of out of vocabulary (OOV) words, relative to the general purpose language ML model, to generate a second answer to the question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Steven D. Werner, Robert D. Stell, Christine Nezda, Kevin C. Holley
  • Patent number: 11649076
    Abstract: A system detects a maneuver of at least one space object by receiving a first data set relating to orbital characteristics of at least one space debris object. The system trains a model, using the first data set, in order to model orbital behaviors of the at least one space debris object. The system then receives a second data set relating to orbital characteristics of the at least one space object, and detects a maneuver of the at least one space object using the trained model and the second data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Jonsimon Tack, Christine Nezda
  • Patent number: 11544277
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for improving results returned from a query. A method can include identify, based on a term embedding of a corpus of terms, expansion terms of a raw query term that are nearest the raw query term, normalize distances between the raw query term and the identified expansion terms, identify, based on the term embedding, expansion term neighbors of an expansion term that are nearest the expansion term; normalize distances between the expansion term and the identified expansion term neighbors, determine a WMA weight between the raw query term and the expansion term, and execute the query with the raw query terms and the expansion terms (determined based on the WMA weight) to generate query results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: John R. Scebold, Christine Nezda
  • Publication number: 20220050847
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for improving results returned from a query. A method can include identify, based on a term embedding of a corpus of terms, expansion terms of a raw query term that are nearest the raw query term, normalize distances between the raw query term and the identified expansion terms, identify, based on the term embedding, expansion term neighbors of an expansion term that are nearest the expansion term; normalize distances between the expansion term and the identified expansion term neighbors, determine a WMA weight between the raw query term and the expansion term, and execute the query with the raw query terms and the expansion terms (determined based on the WMA weight) to generate query results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: John R. Scebold, Christine Nezda
  • Publication number: 20210406479
    Abstract: Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for determining an answer to a natural language question. A method can include receiving a question and a passage to be used to answer the question and executing (i) a first trained ML model, based on the passage and the question and in response to determining that the question, passage, or a combination thereof includes more than a first threshold number of out of vocabulary (OOV) words, relative to a general purpose language ML model, to generate a first answer to the question or (ii) executing a second trained ML model, based on the passage and the question and in response to determining the question, passage, or a combination thereof includes less than the first threshold number of out of vocabulary (OOV) words, relative to the general purpose language ML model, to generate a second answer to the question.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Steven D. Werner, Robert D. Stell, Christine Nezda, Kevin C. Holley
  • Publication number: 20210261276
    Abstract: A system detects a maneuver of at least one space object by receiving a first data set relating to orbital characteristics of at least one space debris object. The system trains a model, using the first data set, in order to model orbital behaviors of the at least one space debris object. The system then receives a second data set relating to orbital characteristics of the at least one space object, and detects a maneuver of the at least one space object using the trained model and the second data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Jonsimon Tack, Christine Nezda