# Oriol Vinyals — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Oriol Vinyals has 2 landmark patents explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How AI Designs Its Own Brains: Hierarchical Neural Architecture Search](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/12632737/using-hierarchical-representations-for-neural-network-architecture-searching) — granted 2026
  This patent describes a computer method for automatically designing neural networks by representing their structures as multi-level graphs and evolving the best designs based on how well they perform.
- [How to Shrink Large AI Models Using Knowledge Distillation](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/10289962/deep-q-networks-dqn) — granted 2019
  A method for teaching small, efficient AI models to mimic the complex decision-making patterns of much larger, more powerful neural networks.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/oriol-vinyals

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