Patents by Inventor Eric J. Nowell

Eric J. Nowell 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: 20260073163
    Abstract: A respective label set is obtained for a number of translation unit pairs, with each pair comprising a set of language elements in a first language and the translation of the set of language elements to a second language. The label set includes values of one or more translation customization attributes. A value of such an attribute associated with a translation request is identified. A translated version of an input set of language elements indicated in the translation request is generated in accordance with the value of the attribute, using a machine learning model trained with the help of the label sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2025
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Maria Nadejde, Anna Currey, Georgiana Dinu, William Jew Wong, Margo Helena Lynch, Tatyana Badeka, Jenyuan Wang, Shuoren Fu, Aakash Upadhyay, Eric J. Nowell, Prajwal Gadad, Advait Bhatwadekar
  • Patent number: 12499330
    Abstract: A respective label set is obtained for a number of translation unit pairs, with each pair comprising a set of language elements in a first language and the translation of the set of language elements to a second language. The label set includes values of one or more translation customization attributes. A value of such an attribute associated with a translation request is identified. A translated version of an input set of language elements indicated in the translation request is generated in accordance with the value of the attribute, using a machine learning model trained with the help of the label sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Maria Nadejde, Anna Currey, Georgiana Dinu, William Jew Wong, Margo Helena Lynch, Tatyana Badeka, Jenyuan Wang, Shuoren Fu, Aakash Upadhyay, Eric J. Nowell, Prajwal Gadad, Advait Bhatwadekar
  • Patent number: 12001809
    Abstract: Machine learning translation models may be selectively tuned to provide custom machine translations. A request to translate input text from an input language to a target language may be received. A tuning data set for translating the input text to the target language may be identified and searched to select pairs of texts in the tuning data according to comparisons with the input text. A machine learning model used to translate into the target language may be tuned using only second texts in the target language in the selected pairs of texts. The tuned machine learning model may then be used to translate the input text into the target language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anna Currey, Dengke Liu, Aakash Upadhyay, Prashant Mathur, Georgiana Dinu, Eric J. Nowell
  • Patent number: 11769019
    Abstract: A translation system receives examples of translations between a first language and a second language. In response to receiving request to translate a source text from the first language to the second language, the system ranks the examples based on the example's applicability to one or more portions of the source text. The system performs additional training of a neural network that was pre-trained to translate from the first language to the second language, where the additional training is based on one or more top-ranking examples. The system translates the source text to the second language using the additionally trained neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Prashant Mathur, Georgiana Dinu, Anna Currey, Eric J. Nowell, Aakash Upadhyay, Haiyu Yao, Marcello Federico, Yaser Al-Onaizan, Rama Krishna Sandeep Pokkunuri, Jian Wang, Xianglong Huang