Patents by Inventor Kevin C. Holley

Kevin C. Holley 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11176361
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for handwriting recognition. In some aspects, an image representing a page of a sample document is analyzed to identify a region having indications of handwriting. The region is analyzed to determine frequencies of a plurality of geometric features within the region. The frequencies may be compared to profiles or histograms of known language types, to determine if there are similarities between the frequencies in the sample document relative to those of the known language types. In some aspects, machine learning may be used to characterize the document as a particular language type based on the frequencies of the geometric features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Darrell L. Young, Kevin C. Holley
  • Publication number: 20190392207
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for handwriting recognition. In some aspects, an image representing a page of a sample document is analyzed to identify a region having indications of handwriting. The region is analyzed to determine frequencies of a plurality of geometric features within the region. The frequencies may be compared to profiles or histograms of known language types, to determine if there are similarities between the frequencies in the sample document relative to those of the known language types. In some aspects, machine learning may be used to characterize the document as a particular language type based on the frequencies of the geometric features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Darrell L. Young, Kevin C. Holley