Patents by Inventor Michael Ahn

Michael Ahn 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: 12638859
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a humanoid robot system comprising a mechanical structure including a torso, two arms, and two legs providing at least 30 degrees of freedom, actuators coupled to the degrees of freedom, a sensor suite comprising at least one camera and proprioceptive sensors including joint encoders and an inertial measurement unit, a computing system comprising at least one processor and memory storing instructions which, when executed, implement a hierarchical bipedal action model including a Beta model configured to receive multimodal input data and generate a token sequence indicative of task intent and environmental state, and an Alpha model configured to condition on the token sequence and current robot pose data to output continuous action chunks comprising sequences of future target joint states over a finite horizon, and a low-level controller configured to convert the continuous action chunks into actuator control signals for execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: FIGURE AI
    Inventors: Corey Lynch, Toki Migimatsu, Michael Ahn
  • Publication number: 20260124746
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for controlling a humanoid robot using a hierarchical bipedal action model (BAM), the method comprising obtaining a base controller by training in simulation with reinforcement learning, instantiating an initial BAM including a Gamma model configured to generate intermediate goals, a Beta model configured to translate the intermediate goals into task-space actions, and an Alpha model configured to translate the task-space actions and robot state into motor commands, deploying the initial BAM such that at least the Alpha model executes on-board the humanoid robot, causing the humanoid robot to perform an initial task and logging sensor and control data to form a first dataset, based on the first dataset, training at least one policy of the BAM to generate a refined BAM, and deploying the refined BAM to control the humanoid robot autonomously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2025
    Publication date: May 7, 2026
    Inventors: Corey Lynch, Toki Migimatsu, Yevgen Chebotar, Michael Ahn, Ivan Babushkin
  • Publication number: 20260126796
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a humanoid robot system comprising a mechanical structure with at least 30 degrees of freedom across torso, arms, and legs, actuators driving the degrees of freedom, sensors including cameras and proprioceptive sensors, and a computing system implementing a hierarchical bipedal action model (BAM). The BAM includes: a Delta model processing sensor data and user input to generate latent representations at a first frequency; a Gamma model receiving latent representations to generate human task actions at a higher second frequency; a Beta model translating task actions into joint configurations at a higher third frequency; and an Alpha model converting joint configurations into actuator control signals at a higher fourth frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2025
    Publication date: May 7, 2026
    Inventors: Corey Lynch, Toki Migimatsu, Michael Ahn
  • Publication number: 20260126805
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a humanoid robot system comprising a mechanical structure including a torso, two arms, and two legs providing at least 30 degrees of freedom, actuators coupled to the degrees of freedom, a sensor suite comprising at least one camera and proprioceptive sensors including joint encoders and an inertial measurement unit, a computing system comprising at least one processor and memory storing instructions which, when executed, implement a hierarchical bipedal action model including a Beta model configured to receive multimodal input data and generate a token sequence indicative of task intent and environmental state, and an Alpha model configured to condition on the token sequence and current robot pose data to output continuous action chunks comprising sequences of future target joint states over a finite horizon, and a low-level controller configured to convert the continuous action chunks into actuator control signals for execution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2025
    Publication date: May 7, 2026
    Inventors: Corey Lynch, Toki Migimatsu, Michael Ahn
  • Publication number: 20260124750
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control system for a humanoid robot comprising a bipedal action model (BAM) with hierarchical architecture including a beta model executing cognitive tasks at lower frequency, ingesting multimodal sensory inputs including visual data and natural language instructions, and an alpha model executing reactive tasks at higher frequency, communicatively coupled to the beta model. The BAM is trained on retargeted robot training data derived from robot-free training data. At runtime, the BAM outputs continuous control commands as parallel-generated action chunks controlling at least 18 degrees of freedom. The system includes a wearable collection apparatus capturing movement data from a human operator without physical connection to the robot, and a retargeting module translating robot-free training data into robot training data by solving embodiment mismatches between human and robot kinematic structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2025
    Publication date: May 7, 2026
    Inventors: Corey Lynch, Toki Migimatsu, Yeygen Chebotar, Michael Ahn, Ivan Babushkin
  • Publication number: 20260126804
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a humanoid robot system comprising a mechanical structure with at least 30 degrees of freedom across torso, arms, and legs, actuators driving the degrees of freedom, sensors including cameras and proprioceptive sensors, and a computing system implementing a hierarchical bipedal action model (BAM). The BAM includes: a Delta model processing sensor data and user input to generate latent representations at a first frequency; a Gamma model receiving latent representations to generate human task actions at a higher second frequency; a Beta model translating task actions into joint configurations at a higher third frequency; and an Alpha model converting joint configurations into actuator control signals at a higher fourth frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2025
    Publication date: May 7, 2026
    Inventors: Corey Lynch, Toki Migimatsu, Michael Ahn
  • Publication number: 20260118878
    Abstract: A robot comprising a sensor configured to obtain data, an alpha model trained on video data and configured to generate data based upon both a spoken command from a human and data from the sensor, and a beta model configured to generate output data used to control an extent of the robot based in part upon the data generated by the alpha model and the data from the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2025
    Publication date: April 30, 2026
    Inventors: Corey Lynch, Yevgen Chebotar, Toki Migimatsu, Michael Ahn
  • Publication number: 20260111032
    Abstract: A robot comprising a sensor configured to obtain data, an alpha model configured to generate data based upon both a spoken command from a human and data from the sensor, a retrieval-augmented generation module configured to obtain additional real-time knowledge from external sources, and a beta model configured to generate output data used to control an extent of the robot based in part upon the data generated by the alpha model, the additional real-time knowledge obtained by the retrieval-augmented generation module, and the data from the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2025
    Publication date: April 23, 2026
    Inventors: Corey Lynch, Yevgen Chebotar, Toki Migimatsu, Michael Ahn
  • Publication number: 20260102909
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for coordinating task execution among multiple humanoid robots, comprising receiving a high-level task command, decomposing it into sub-tasks, determining a cost-optimized assignment using a cost-optimized bipedal action model (CoBAM) based on energy consumption, time to completion, and robot capabilities, and transmitting the assignment to assigned robots. The CoBAM comprises a hierarchical architecture including an L2 beta model operating at 1-20 Hz for high-level planning and an L1 alpha model operating at 100-10,000 Hz for continuous control commands. The cost function considers battery levels, physical distances between robot and sub-task locations, and mechanical wear factors associated with specific joint movements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2025
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Inventors: Corey Lynch, Toki Migimatsu, Yevgen Chebotar, Michael Ahn, Ivan Babushkin
  • Publication number: 20260097492
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for generating annotation data for robotic training using a hierarchical transformer-based model with multiple layers. The transformer-based model includes Alpha models generating low-level control outputs and Beta models generating high-level control outputs. The method receives multimodal input data comprising visual sensor data and natural language instructions, processes this data through the hierarchical transformer-based model to generate annotations at different abstraction levels, wherein Beta models create semantic annotations describing task objectives and Alpha models generate motor command annotations specifying robotic actions, and stores these annotations with the input data to create annotated training data for robotic control systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2025
    Publication date: April 9, 2026
    Inventors: Corey Lynch, Toki Migimatsu, Yevgen Chebotar, Michael Ahn, Ivan Babushkin, Louis Foucard, Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 12585626
    Abstract: An integrated platform system that employ a series of machine learning techniques and prediction and detection units that can process input data and extract and generate meaningful insights and predictions therefrom. The system integrates together multiple different data storage types and applications that generates data of different types, and an associated processing system for processing the different data types, store the data in a common data model to normalize the data, determine the data lineage of the data, and then process the data using different types of techniques. The data can also be processed by a prediction unit for generating meaningful insights and predictions or by an anomaly detection unit for detecting one or more anomalies in the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: KPMG LLP
    Inventors: Niels Hanson, James Johnson Gardner, Punit S. Orpe, Wendy Du, Laurence Anthony Brown, Ranjan Vivek Mannige, David Green, Michael Ahn, Yang Zhou, Andrew Yuan, Adam Helio Rosa, Kyle B. Chen, Alex Perusse, Christian Alexander Manaog, Yeshwanth Somu, Xin Cheng, Torey C. Bearly, Raghav Saboo, Sphoorthy Pamaraju, Erik Ernst, Can Ozuretmen, Yuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12578733
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a humanoid robot comprising a torso having an alpha model deployed on a first GPU, and wherein said alpha model includes a first number of parameters and is configured to receive a natural language command from a human and generate processed data, a beta model deployed on a second GPU, and wherein said beta model includes a second number of parameters and is configured to receive the processed data from the alpha model and provide output data used to control an extent of the left wrist, and wherein the first number of parameters is larger than the second number of parameters, and a unified training framework is used to jointly train the alpha model and the beta model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2025
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: FIGURE AI INC.
    Inventors: Corey Lynch, Yevgen Chebotar, Toki Migimatsu, Michael Ahn
  • Publication number: 20260070221
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for generating motor control commands for a humanoid robot, comprising an alpha model with over 1 billion parameters that processes visual observations and language instructions at a first frequency to generate contextual embeddings, and a beta model operating at a higher second frequency. The beta model includes an embodiment-specific state encoder projecting robot state information into a shared embedding space, a diffusion transformer module generating denoised action sequences through iterative flow-matching that cross-attends to the alpha model's contextual embeddings, and an embodiment-specific action decoder converting denoised sequences into motor control commands. The beta model generates action chunks comprising future action sequences over a predetermined time horizon in a single inference step, with the complete system having less than 5 billion parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2025
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Inventors: Corey Lynch, Toki Migimatsu, Michael Ahn
  • Publication number: 20260064125
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a humanoid robot comprising a torso having an alpha model deployed on a first GPU, and wherein said alpha model includes a first number of parameters and is configured to receive a natural language command from a human and generate processed data, a beta model deployed on a second GPU, and wherein said beta model includes a second number of parameters and is configured to receive the processed data from the alpha model and provide output data used to control an extent of the left wrist, and wherein the first number of parameters is larger than the second number of parameters, and a unified training framework is used to jointly train the alpha model and the beta model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2025
    Publication date: March 5, 2026
    Inventors: Corey Lynch, Yevgen Chebotar, Toki Migimatsu, Michael Ahn
  • Publication number: 20250094395
    Abstract: An integrated platform system that employ a series of machine learning techniques and prediction and detection units that can process input data and extract and generate meaningful insights and predictions therefrom. The system integrates together multiple different data storage types and applications that generates data of different types, and an associated processing system for processing the different data types, store the data in a common data model to normalize the data, determine the data lineage of the data, and then process the data using different types of techniques. The data can also be processed by a prediction unit for generating meaningful insights and predictions or by an anomaly detection unit for detecting one or more anomalies in the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Niels HANSON, James Johnson GARDNER, Punit S. ORPE, Wendy DU, Laurence Anthony BROWN, Ranjan Vivek MANNIGE, David GREEN, Michael AHN, Yang ZHOU, Andrew YUAN, Adam Helio ROSA, Kyle B. CHEN, Alex PERUSSE, Christian Alexander MANAOG, Yeshwanth SOMU, Xin CHENG, Torey C. BEARLY, Raghav SABOO, Sphoorthy PAMARAJU, Erik ERNST, Can OZURETMEN, Yuan ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12019596
    Abstract: An integrated platform system that employ a series of machine learning techniques and prediction and detection units that can process input data and extract and generate meaningful insights and predictions therefrom. The system integrates together multiple different data storage types and applications that generates data of different types, and an associated processing system for processing the different data types, store the data in a common data model to normalize the data, determine the data lineage of the data, and then process the data using different types of techniques. The data can also be processed by a prediction unit for generating meaningful insights and predictions or by an anomaly detection unit for detecting one or more anomalies in the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: KPMG LLP
    Inventors: Niels Hanson, James Johnson Gardner, Punit S. Orpe, Wendy Du, Laurence Anthony Brown, Ranjan Vivek Mannige, David Green, Michael Ahn, Yang Zhou, Andrew Yuan, Adam Helio Rosa, Kyle B. Chen, Alex Perusse, Christian Alexander Manaog, Yeshwanth Somu, Xin Cheng, Torey C. Bearly, Raghav Saboo, Sphoorthy Pamaraju, Erik Ernst, Can Ozuretmen, Yuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230267105
    Abstract: An integrated platform system that employ a series of machine learning techniques and prediction and detection units that can process input data and extract and generate meaningful insights and predictions therefrom. The system integrates together multiple different data storage types and applications that generates data of different types, and an associated processing system for processing the different data types, store the data in a common data model to normalize the data, determine the data lineage of the data, and then process the data using different types of techniques. The data can also be processed by a prediction unit for generating meaningful insights and predictions or by an anomaly detection unit for detecting one or more anomalies in the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Niels Hanson, James Johnson Gardner, Punit S. Orpe, Wendy Du, Laurence Anthony Brown, JR., Ranjan Vivek Mannige, David Green, Michael Ahn, Yang Zhou, Andrew Yuan, Adam Helio Rosa, Kyle B. Chen, Alex Perusse, Christian Alexander Manaog, Yeshwanth Somu, Xin Cheng, Torey C. Bearly, Raghav Saboo, Sphoorthy Pamaraju, Erik Ernst, Can Ozuretmen, Yuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11556510
    Abstract: An integrated platform system that employ a series of machine learning techniques and prediction and detection units that can process input data and extract and generate meaningful insights and predictions therefrom. The system integrates together multiple different data storage types and applications that generates data of different types, and an associated processing system for processing the different data types, store the data in a common data model to normalize the data, determine the data lineage of the data, and then process the data using different types of techniques. The data can also be processed by a prediction unit for generating meaningful insights and predictions or by an anomaly detection unit for detecting one or more anomalies in the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: KPMG LLP
    Inventors: Niels Hanson, James Johnson Gardner, Punit S. Orpe, Wendy Du, Laurence Anthony Brown, Ranjan Vivek Mannige, David Green, Michael Ahn, Yang Zhou, Andrew Yuan, Adam Helio Rosa, Kyle B. Chen, Alex Perusse, Christian Alexander Manaog, Yeshwanth Somu, Xin Cheng, Torey C. Bearly, Raghav Saboo, Sphoorthy Pamaraju, Erik Ernst, Can Ozuretmen, Yuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190310691
    Abstract: Provided is a crypto currency mining system capable of producing hot water, which includes a cooling system for cooling heat generated when a crypto current is mined and includes a hot water producing device for generating hot water by using the heat of cooling water, which passed through the cooling system, to reduce management and maintenance costs by recycling energy consumed when the crypto currency is mined, and improve productivity. The crypto currency mining system capable of producing hot water includes a calculation device for mining a crypto currency; a power supply device configured to supply electric power for an operation of the calculation device; a cooling system configured to cool heat generated by the calculation device or the power supply device through exchange of heat; and a hot water producing device configured to produce hot water by using the heat discharged from the cooling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventor: Michael AHN
  • Publication number: 20170178068
    Abstract: Disclosed is an international order and ship optimization method including a customer access environment determining step of determining an access environment of a customer who accessed an online shopping mall of a seller by recognizing a location of the customer, an address input user interface (UI) providing step of providing an address input UI displayed in a language used by the customer, and an inputted address processing step of processing the inputted address of the customer inputted in the address input UI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventor: Michael Ahn