Patents by Inventor Rodney Laroy FULFORD

Rodney Laroy FULFORD 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: 20210089563
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for retrieving a similar document from a corpus of documents is provided. The method may include receiving a search document comprising a set of words; applying a first encoder to generate a first vector; applying a second encoder to generate a second vector; determining a first similarity between the first vector of the search document and the first vector of each document of the corpus of documents; determining a second similarity between the second vector of the search document and the second vector of each document of the corpus of documents; generating a first ranked list of documents based on the first similarity; generating a second ranked list of documents based on the second similarity; applying a voting algorithm to determine a score associated with each document; and outputting a third ranked list of documents based on the determined score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Ryan GRABAU, John David FLEIG, Dmitri Arkadyevich POLSHAKOV, Jeffrey Michael WILSON, Rodney Laroy FULFORD, Yi DENG, Philippe Yves AYALA, Donald Eugene SWARTWOUT, Christopher Ryan GESSNER
  • Publication number: 20210089971
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer implemented method for identifying conflicting prior art is provided. The method may include: receiving a set of target conflict citations from a database; generating a first data set based on the conflict citations; decorating the first set of data with one or more features from the set of target conflict citations; generating a training set based on the first data set; training multiple data models using the training data set to identify one or more conflict citations; selecting a data model from the multiple data models; receiving a search document; generating a data set of potential prior art related to the received search document: generating, by the selected model, a ranked list of potential conflict citations based on the potential prior art; and outputting the ranked list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Ryan GRABAU, John David FLEIG, Dmitrii Arkadyevich POLSHAKOV, Jeffrey Michael WILSON, Rodney Laroy FULFORD, Yi DENG, Philippe Yves Bertrand AYALA, Donald Eugene SWARTWOUT, Nicholas Thady COCKROFT
  • Patent number: 10891321
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for retrieving a similar document from a corpus of documents is provided. The method may include receiving a search document comprising a set of words; applying a first encoder to generate a first vector; applying a second encoder to generate a second vector; determining a first similarity between the first vector of the search document and the first vector of each document of the corpus of documents; determining a second similarity between the second vector of the search document and the second vector of each document of the corpus of documents; generating a first ranked list of documents based on the first similarity; generating a second ranked list of documents based on the second similarity; applying a voting algorithm to determine a score associated with each document; and outputting a third ranked list of documents based on the determined score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: American Chemical Society
    Inventors: Mark Ryan Grabau, John David Fleig, Dmitrii Arkadyevich Polshakov, Jeffrey Michael Wilson, Rodney Laroy Fulford, Yi Deng, Philippe Yves Ayala, Donald Eugene Swartwout, Christopher Ryan Gessner
  • Publication number: 20200073879
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for retrieving a similar document from a corpus of documents is provided. The method may include receiving a search document comprising a set of words; applying a first encoder to generate a first vector; applying a second encoder to generate a second vector; determining a first similarity between the first vector of the search document and the first vector of each document of the corpus of documents; determining a second similarity between the second vector of the search document and the second vector of each document of the corpus of documents; generating a first ranked list of documents based on the first similarity; generating a second ranked list of documents based on the second similarity; applying a voting algorithm to determine a score associated with each document; and outputting a third ranked list of documents based on the determined score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Ryan GRABAU, John David FLEIG, Dmitrii Arkadyevich POLSHAKOV, Jeffrey Michael WILSON, Rodney Laroy FULFORD, Yi DENG, Philippe Yves AYALA, Donald Eugene SWARTWOUT, Christopher Ryan Gessner