Patents by Inventor Joseph Comer

Joseph Comer 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: 12347168
    Abstract: Described is a system for detecting and classifying new patterns of objects and images for applications where labeled data is scarce. In operation, the system trains a neural network with unlabeled images and extracts features with the neural network from both the unlabeled images and a set of labeled images to generate a feature space. Labels are propagated in the feature space using nearest neighbors, allowing for modeling of a per-class simplified distribution. An object in a new test image can then be classified using reconstruction error based on the per-class simplified distributions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: HRL LABORATORIES, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Comer, Heiko Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 12347180
    Abstract: Described is a system for pattern recognition and graph extraction. The system operates by obtaining data from a quantum dot device having gate defined semiconductor quantum dots. An image with pixel-level coordinates is then generated from the data. Ground truth graph annotations are received of the image. A deep network processes the image and pixel-level coordinates to generate a predicted graph. The predicted graph is compared to the graph annotations to generate a loss, which allows the deep network to be optimized by updating parameters in the deep network based on the loss. The image with pixel-level coordinates is then used to generate an optimized predicted graph, which allows for identifying operational voltages to apply to the quantum dot device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: HRL LABORATORIES, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Comer, Reed Andrews, Ian Jenkins, Parker Williams, Heiko Hoffmann, Wyatt Mcallister