Innovation Timeline
AI & Machine Learning
Neural networks, backpropagation, attention mechanisms, and the transformer architecture — the patent history of artificial intelligence.
Landmark patents
204
Total citations
5,680
Span
1985 – 2025
Milestones
43
1980s
How Hopfield Networks Use Resistors to Mimic Brain-Like Memory
A foundational patent describing an electronic circuit that uses a grid of resistors to perform computations, effectively creating an artificial neural network that can store and recall patterns.
167 citations
How to Speed Up Neural Network Training Using Momentum
A 1988 method for training artificial neural networks that uses an 'activating variable' to speed up how quickly the network learns from its mistakes.
29 citations
1990s
How to Build Complex Database Searches Using Venn Diagrams
A method for searching databases by visually connecting Venn diagrams to represent complex logical relationships between different sets of data.
859 citations
How Websites Get Ranked by Importance
This patent describes a computer method for scoring documents in a linked database, like the internet, by considering the importance of other documents that link to them, helping search engines find better results.
818 citations
How Websites Use Distorted Text Riddles to Stop Bots
This patent describes the original method for creating CAPTCHAs, using distorted text or audio riddles to distinguish human users from automated bots.
219 citations
How Computers Automatically Label Different Speakers in Audio Recordings
A method for identifying and labeling speakers in audio recordings, even if the system has never heard the person speak before, by grouping similar voices and asking a user to name them.
75 citations
2000s
How Digital Images Hide Invisible Markers to Track Rotation and Scaling
A method for hiding invisible patterns in digital images that allow computers to detect if an image has been rotated or resized, even if the original version is missing.
136 citations
How Computers Find Hidden Connections Between Different Fields of Knowledge
A method for finding related ideas in completely different subjects by using math to map how words appear together, even when the subjects use different vocabulary.
456 citations
How the iRobot Roomba Automatically Cleans Floors Without Falling Down Stairs
A 2002 patent describing an autonomous floor-cleaning robot that uses sensors to navigate rooms, avoid cliffs like stairs, and sweep debris into a removable bin.
215 citations
How Search Engines Personalize Results Based on Your Browsing History
Google's patent for narrowing down search results by prioritizing websites that match your personal interests and past browsing habits.
24 citations
How Google Distributed Machine Learning Across Many Computers
A 2003 Google patent describing a way to build machine learning models by splitting the work across a large network of computers rather than a single machine.
72 citations
How Caterpillar Compresses Heavy Machinery Data Using Neural Networks
A method for shrinking massive amounts of sensor data from construction equipment into small, efficient packets for cheaper wireless transmission by using neural network training.
How Software Predicts What You Need Based on Your Coworkers
A system that uses the browsing history and work habits of your colleagues to automatically build a personalized dashboard of links and content you are likely to need next.
5 citations
How Graphics Processors Switch Between Different Tasks Efficiently
A method for graphics chips to pause and swap between different programs or tasks without waiting for every single part of the processor to finish its current job.
6 citations
How to Verify Anonymous Users Using Third-Party Identity Services
A method for a system to identify and authorize a user it doesn't know by asking a different, trusted service that already has the user's information.
39 citations
How Search Engines Rank Images Using User Ratings
A system that improves image search results by combining how well an image matches a search term with how highly users have rated that image elsewhere.
46 citations
How Touchscreens Handle Scrolling and Rubber-Band Effects
This patent describes the software logic that allows touchscreens to distinguish between simple scrolling and multi-finger gestures, while also enabling the signature 'rubber-band' bounce effect when you reach the end of a page.
132 citations
How Computers Automatically Organize and Search Photos Using Contextual Data
A system for indexing images by attaching descriptive data to objects within them and adjusting search rankings based on how often a user searches for those specific items.
2 citations
How a Smart System Verifies and Updates Customer Data
This patent describes an automated system that uses artificial intelligence to pick the best ways to check and update information about people or businesses, choosing from methods like web searches, phone calls, or direct mail.
102 citations
How Nanoparticles Form Adaptive Neural Network Connections
This patent describes how to build and strengthen a physical neural network using tiny nanoparticles suspended in a liquid, where electric fields make the connections learn and adapt.
12 citations
How Network Providers Subcontract Data Processing Tasks
A method for internet service providers to bundle specific data processing tasks from many users and send them to a third party for efficient handling.
3 citations
How Computers Automatically Target Ads Based on Trending Internet Memes
A system that finds trending internet topics, measures how fast they are spreading, and automatically places relevant advertisements on the web pages where those topics are being discussed.
8 citations
How Human Searchers Unlock Restricted Web Content for Users
A system that uses human searchers to access password-protected or subscription-based websites to retrieve information for users who otherwise cannot see that content.
How Devices Predict Your Next Move Using Gestures and History
A patent for a smart interface that tracks your physical gestures and past habits to predict what you want to do next, showing custom options on a screen to save you time.
34 citations
How Software Automatically Ranks and Manages Online Customer Feedback
A system that automatically finds, scores, and prioritizes online mentions of a company so they can respond to the most important conversations first.
27 citations
How eBay Uses Image Fingerprints to Search for Products
A system that lets you search for items on a marketplace by uploading a photo instead of typing text, using image 'fingerprints' to find matching products.
12 citations
Predicting User Interests Based on Who Looks at Whose Profile
A method for predicting what a user might be interested in by analyzing the web of connections created when people view each other's social media profile pages.
73 citations
How Computers Calculate Probabilities in Large Knowledge Bases
A method for finding answers in a database of uncertain facts by ignoring probabilities to find a solution first, then calculating how likely that solution is based on the underlying evidence.
1 citation
2010s
How Google Uses User Feedback to Rank Websites by Quality
A method for Google to judge a website's quality by looking at how users interact with its search results across different categories of search queries.
26 citations
Google's System for Auto-Searching Text on Your Device
Google's 2015 patent describes a system that automatically finds and displays relevant information online based on text it detects on your device, even without you asking it to.
189 citations
How Touchscreen Gestures Use Physics to Feel Real
Google's patent on making touchscreen gestures feel natural by applying simulated physics, like friction or magnetism, to items on your screen.
63 citations
How Cloud Systems Automatically Assign Virtual Machines to Servers
A method for cloud services to automatically choose the best server for a task by filtering out impossible options and then ranking the remaining ones.
3 citations
How a Server Aggregates Comments from Different Websites About One File
A system that collects comments or data from multiple websites about a single photo or video and bundles them together to display on your device.
2 citations
How Amazon Optimizes Where to Store Products to Avoid Stockouts
A mathematical method for deciding how many items to stock in different warehouses to minimize the cost of running out of products.
41 citations
How Software Automatically Picks the Best Way to Send Job Ads
A system that uses data analytics to choose the most effective communication channel for sending job advertisements to specific people and tracks the resulting referrals.
2 citations
How Amazon Created a Marketplace for Recommendation Algorithms
A system that lets website owners rent recommendation algorithms from third-party developers, with a built-in payment structure that rewards developers based on how well their algorithms perform.
3 citations
How Voice Commands Help Computers Find Objects in Pictures and Videos
A method for using voice commands to tell a computer which object in a photo or video you want to search for, allowing it to automatically isolate that object and perform a visual search.
4 citations
How Speech Recognizers Use Expected Answers to Speed Up
This patent describes how a speech recognition system can get faster and more accurate by first checking if what you said matches what it expects you to say, instead of listening for everything.
6 citations
How a Digital Assistant Launches Apps Using Your Voice
This patent describes how a digital assistant like Siri uses your spoken words and understanding of your conversation to figure out what you want and launch the right app.
211 citations
How Software Detects What You Want Based on Your Social Media Posts
A system that reads your social media posts to figure out your intent, then automatically serves ads or updates your profile based on how likely you are to actually buy or do something.
34 citations
How Google Displays Knowledge Panels Next to Search Results
A method for automatically assembling and displaying information boxes on search result pages by pulling data from multiple sources based on user query patterns.
25 citations
How Facebook Ranks Search Results Based on Your Friends' Activity
A method for ranking search results by prioritizing links that your social network friends have clicked on previously.
66 citations
How Cloud Services Automatically Switch Providers When One Fails
A system that uses conversational AI to understand your reliability needs and automatically switches your cloud service to a backup provider if your current one goes down.
1 citation
How Facebook Uses User Feedback to Improve Search Results
A method for improving search engine accuracy by letting users manually rate search results, then using those ratings to automatically adjust how the search algorithm ranks future results.
How Computers Match and Join Messy Data from Different Sources
A method for merging datasets by identifying related but non-identical items using flexible matching rules rather than strict equality.
15 citations
How Websites Use Your Cookie Data to Show Targeted Ads
Adobe's patent describes a system where website administrators create custom rules to match a user's browser cookie data with specific advertisements or content.
2 citations
How Groupon Automatically Categorizes Merchant Services Using Text Analysis
A system that automatically scans merchant websites and uses high-precision search queries to label their services, helping platforms like Groupon organize thousands of business listings.
25 citations
How Servers Automatically Connect Users Based on Mutual Friend Lists
A method for servers to automatically create secure communication links between two users only if they have both added each other to their respective contact or buddy lists.
7 citations
How Networks Keep Video Streams Smooth During Busy Times
A method for internet providers to automatically balance network resources so that multiple users streaming video simultaneously experience the best possible overall quality.
9 citations
How Phones Use Your Voice History to Fix Your Typing
Apple's patent for a system that improves text autocorrection by using a database of words the user has previously spoken into their device.
5 citations
How Social Networks Automatically Create Groups Based on Time and Place
Google's patent describes a system that automatically groups social media users together based on where they are or when they are posting, allowing for instant, context-aware content sharing.
6 citations
How Software Automatically Translates Database Queries for Different Storage Systems
A system that intercepts database queries written for traditional relational databases and automatically translates them to work with non-relational databases, allowing developers to switch storage systems without rewriting their application code.
11 citations
How Nextdoor Verifies Neighbors and Limits Online Social Circles
A patent describing a system for a private, location-based social network that verifies users' home addresses to restrict communications to people living in the same neighborhood.
14 citations
How to Make Software Debugging Consistent Using Object Finalization Control
A method for virtual machines to pause and precisely replay the cleanup of computer objects, ensuring that debugging logs match the original program execution exactly.
4 citations
How Computers Learn to Track Your Eyes Better
This patent describes a method for eye-tracking systems to get more accurate by first asking you to look at specific points, and then secretly improving its accuracy as you use the computer normally.
2 citations
How to Securely Pass Data Packets Within a Trusted Network
A method for tagging data packets with verified properties so that internal network nodes can trust the data without re-verifying it themselves.
3 citations
How Salesforce Speeds Up Data Processing Using Bulk Message Handling
A method for cloud systems to grab multiple tasks at once instead of one by one, using a locking mechanism to ensure data stays consistent during bulk processing.
7 citations
How Computers Automatically Adjust Tasks to Run Faster in Data Centers
A method for cloud computers to monitor their own performance while processing massive data tasks and automatically changing their settings or resource levels to stay efficient.
32 citations
How Microsoft Word Suggests Research Content While You Write
A system that automatically fetches and suggests relevant research data and outlines directly inside word processors or note-taking apps based on what you are currently writing.
1 citation
How to Clean Files by Rebuilding Them Instead of Scanning Them
A security method that stops malware by rebuilding files from scratch based on strict format rules, rather than looking for known viruses.
7 citations
How Apps Automatically Switch Between Video Call Connection Methods
A system that automatically decides whether to connect video calls directly between users or through a central server based on the number of people and connection quality.
156 citations
How a Camera-Based System Monitors Artificial Neural Network Creativity
A system that uses a camera to watch a screen displaying neural network activity, identifying new patterns and using a critic to decide if those patterns are worth keeping.
1 citation
Square's System for Predicting Orders and Guiding Couriers
This 2018 patent from Square describes a system that predicts which restaurants will get orders and tells delivery drivers where to wait to be ready.
63 citations
How Online Work Platforms Manage New Freelancer Onboarding
A system for online freelance marketplaces to automatically create and manage task-based checklists that guide new workers through hiring and project setup.
6 citations
How Google Automatically Groups Photos and Contextual Data into Moments
A method for automatically grouping photos from front and rear cameras with related data like audio, weather, and location to create a rich, interactive digital memory.
12 citations
How to Stack Two Computer Chips with Direct Connections
TSMC's patent describes a compact way to stack two computer chips directly on top of each other, using a special filling material to hold tiny electrical connections in place, often with the top chip being wider than the bottom.
1 citation
How Uber Updates App Features for Specific Groups of Users
A system that automatically changes how an app looks or behaves for some users based on their location or device, while leaving other users' apps unchanged.
2 citations
How Computers Group Files Based on Meaning and Context
A system that organizes digital files and data into related groups by analyzing their meaning, context, and how they relate to one another.
17 citations
How to Automatically Expand Neural Networks by Adding New Nodes
A method for growing artificial intelligence models by identifying underperforming parts of a network and adding new nodes based on the behavior of existing ones.
3 citations
How to Save and Reuse Skills Learned by Artificial Intelligence Hardware
A method for capturing the internal settings of a neuromorphic AI chip after it learns a task, allowing that 'skill' to be exported and loaded onto another AI chip.
1 citation
How to Shrink Large AI Models Using Knowledge Distillation
A method for teaching small, efficient AI models to mimic the complex decision-making patterns of much larger, more powerful neural networks.
4 citations
How AI Agents Learn to Pick the Best Future Actions
A method for an AI agent to predict which actions will yield the highest rewards by analyzing past experiences and refining its decision-making model.
How AI Learns New Tasks Using Old Data Labels
A method for helping AI models understand new topics by grouping similar labels from different datasets into a shared, broader category.
4 citations
How a Single Electronic Component Can Learn and Process AI Data
This patent describes a tiny electronic component called a resistive processing unit (RPU) that acts like a brain cell in an artificial intelligence network, storing and processing information directly within its changing electrical resistance.
11 citations
How to Make AI Run Faster on Smaller Computer Chips
A method to shrink complex AI models by converting their high-precision math into simpler, faster formats that run efficiently on mobile devices.
17 citations
How Smartphones Suggest Apps Based on Where You Are
Apple's patent for a system that automatically highlights or suggests mobile apps based on your current location or a location you are planning to visit.
16 citations
How Virtual Machines Keep Their Data Separate on Shared Storage
A method for virtual machines to store data in isolated, non-mixed logical storage units to improve security and management efficiency within a shared physical storage pool.
12 citations
How Uber Manages Data Connections for Self-Driving Car Fleets
A system that splits network traffic for autonomous vehicles by sending heavy data over cheap channels while reserving a highly reliable channel specifically for delivery confirmations.
36 citations
How AI Systems Learn to Predict and Act Simultaneously
A method for training AI models that combines supervised learning for prediction with reinforcement learning for decision-making in a single, coordinated system.
4 citations
How Facebook Uses Deep Learning to Predict What You Might Like
A method for training AI models to recommend new content by comparing a user's past interactions with unseen items in a social network.
8 citations
How Streaming Services Automatically Build Custom Radio Stations
A method for streaming services to create custom music radio stations by analyzing genre percentages and artist relationships to pick the best songs.
3 citations
How to Make Artificial Intelligence Explain Its Own Decisions
A system that helps complex machine learning models explain why they made a specific decision by turning their data into simple, readable rules.
37 citations
How Sonos Speakers Use Personalized Wake Words to Recognize Different Users
A system that lets multiple people control a shared speaker by using unique voice-trigger words to link their specific music accounts and preferences.
15 citations
How Computers Find Similar Text Using Compact Data Structures
This patent describes a method for efficiently identifying similar text records, like documents or product reviews, by using special compact data structures that store text terms probabilistically and then analyzing them with machine learning.
18 citations
How AI Uses Question-Guided Attention to Answer Questions About Images
A method for AI to answer questions about images by dynamically focusing on relevant parts of the picture based on the specific question asked.
28 citations
How Software Automatically Checks for Configuration Errors in Complex Systems
A method for keeping large-scale computer systems consistent by automatically checking if new or removed parts break established configuration rules.
How to Search Through Long Videos Using a Compressed Visual Timeline
A method for searching large collections of video or image data by condensing them into a single, scrollable visual strip that triggers automated searches as you move a slider.
1 citation
How AI Learns to Control Game Characters Based on Their Surroundings
A system that allows digital characters to automatically perform actions by matching their current environment to previously learned experiences stored in a database.
26 citations
How Voice Assistants Change Their Speech Based on How You Talk
This patent describes a system where a voice-controlled device adjusts its text-to-speech output characteristics, like speed or tone, based on the user's speaking habits or current situation, making responses feel more natural and personalized.
26 citations
How SK Hynix Builds Artificial Synapses for Brain-Like Computer Chips
A design for a tiny hardware component that mimics biological brain connections to help computers learn and process information like a human brain.
How Sony's Smart Glasses Share Content During Voice Calls
A patent for wearable smart glasses that let you see digital information overlaid on the real world and share that content with someone else during a phone call.
A Computer Chip for Training Many AI Agents at Once
This patent describes a specialized computer processor designed to quickly train multiple artificial intelligence agents simultaneously using a unique set of instructions, speeding up how AI learns.
53 citations
How Banks Dynamically Adjust Security Questions Based on Your Behavior
A system that automatically changes the difficulty and number of security questions you face when opening a bank account based on your device data and risk level.
13 citations
How Computers Use Memory Networks to Answer Questions
A method for AI to search through large amounts of stored information by repeatedly 'hopping' through memory to find the most relevant facts for answering a question.
1 citation
How IBM Uses Resistive Memory Chips to Speed Up AI Training
A method for running AI neural networks directly on specialized hardware chips that store data as electrical resistance, making them faster and more energy-efficient than standard processors.
7 citations
Training AI Models Across Different Computers
This 2026 patent describes a way to train AI models on one computer, send a version to another computer for further training with private data, and then update the original model with the improvements.
How Wearable Tech Uses 3D Sound to Guide Visually Impaired People
A system that builds a 3D map of the world and uses spatial audio to act as a virtual guide, helping visually impaired users navigate around obstacles.
How AI Systems Adjust Their Behavior Based on User Mood
A system that monitors human-AI interactions to build personality profiles and automatically adjust AI responses to improve communication quality.
How to Fix Faulty Memory Cells in AI Chips
This patent describes a system that tests individual memory cells in AI chips for uneven behavior and then permanently disables the faulty ones before the chip starts learning, making AI training more efficient.
3 citations
Teaching Computers to Understand Document Similarity Using AI
This patent describes a way to train a computer program (a neural network) to understand how similar documents are to each other, by showing it examples and teaching it to group similar ones together and separate dissimilar ones.
53 citations
How Eye Tracking Systems Adapt When They Can't See Eye Glints
This patent describes an eye-tracking system that intelligently switches between two methods: one using bright reflections on the eye when available, and another using head position and facial features when those reflections are absent.
4 citations
How eBay Uses AI to Identify Brands in Search Queries
A system that uses deep learning to recognize brand names in search queries and automatically improve search results by adding relevant product terms.
2 citations
How Smart Speakers Know You're Talking to Them After a Command
This patent describes how a smart speaker system can tell if follow-up speech is meant for it, even without a "wake word," by analyzing voice activity and partial speech recognition results using an AI model.
64 citations
How to Smartly Manage Power in Small Grids with Renewable Energy
This patent describes a method for quickly and efficiently planning how different energy sources (like solar, wind, and batteries) work together in a small, local power grid, especially when renewable energy output changes unexpectedly.
How Self-Driving Cars Find Clear Paths Between Objects
This patent describes a method for vehicles, especially self-driving ones, to use lidar data and a 3D grid to precisely identify open spaces between obstacles, helping them navigate safely.
1 citation
How Digital Assistants Control Apps and Ask for More Information
This patent describes how a digital assistant on a device can understand what a user wants from a natural language command, find the right app, get a step-by-step guide from another device, and then ask the user for more details on the screen to complete the task with that app.
48 citations
How Computers Find Your Pupil Even With Glare
This patent describes a computer method to accurately find the outline of a person's eye pupil by using radial search lines and handling bright reflections differently from clear areas.
1 citation
How AI Models Learn Complex Tasks by Breaking Them Down
This patent describes a method for training artificial intelligence models to solve big problems by splitting them into smaller, manageable steps and learning each step separately before combining them.
5 citations
How Samsung Uses Two AI Models to Improve Sentence Generation
A method for training an AI to write better sentences by using a second model that reads or generates text in a different order to grade the first model's work.
1 citation
How AI Models Understand Language Using 'Attention'
This patent describes a neural network architecture, known as a Transformer, that uses a "self-attention" mechanism to process sequences of information, like words in a sentence, by weighing the importance of different parts of the input.
45 citations
How D-Wave Clears Magnetic Noise in Quantum Computers
A method for improving quantum computer accuracy by actively clearing out magnetic interference that builds up during calculations.
13 citations
How Airport Vehicles Automatically Park Safely Next to Airplanes
A smart navigation system that helps airport service vehicles like catering trucks park safely at aircraft doors by identifying targets and avoiding restricted zones.
How to Automatically Tune Machine Learning Settings Using Smart Math
A system that uses advanced statistical modeling to automatically find the best settings for complex machine learning models, saving engineers from manual trial and error.
How Cloud Systems Automatically Create and Train AI Data Models
A cloud-based system that generates fake, privacy-safe data to train AI models, ensuring they remain accurate while protecting sensitive personal information.
4 citations
How to Automatically Detect and Fix Changes in AI Model Data
This patent describes a system that automatically notices when the real-world data an AI model sees changes, causing its predictions to become less accurate, and then fixes the model.
32 citations
Training Robot AI Models Faster Using Smart Simulations
This patent describes a cloud service that helps train artificial intelligence models for robots by running simulations, even suggesting improvements to the AI's learning rules before starting.
How Computers Train AI Models Using Separate Virtual Simulations
This patent describes a system where one virtual computer runs simulations of a system, like a robot, and another virtual computer uses the simulation data to teach an AI model how to make better decisions.
13 citations
How to Force AI to Follow Logical Rules During Training
A system that uses a dual-headed neural network to ensure AI models obey specific logical rules by embedding those rules directly into the training process.
2 citations
AI System for Diagnosing Machines and Managing Data in Factories
This patent describes a system that uses artificial intelligence to detect problems in industrial machines while smartly adjusting how much data it collects and sends to avoid overwhelming the network.
3 citations
AI System That Learns Normal Email Use to Spot and Stop Cyber Threats
This 2023 patent describes an AI system that learns how your company normally uses email and then automatically takes action to stop cyber threats that behave unusually.
3 citations
Nvidia's Method for Training Self-Driving Car AI in Simulations
Nvidia's 2022 patent describes how to train AI for self-driving cars by using simulated environments and virtual sensors, then matching the simulated data format to real-world sensor data for AI processing.
17 citations
How Aircraft Engine Oil Is Drained and Checked Automatically
A specialized tool on an extendable arm that connects to an airplane to drain engine fluid and test its quality in real-time.
Making Computer Voices Sound More Expressive from Your Speech
This patent describes how a computer listens to your spoken words, figures out which parts you emphasized, and then makes its own computer-generated voice emphasize those same parts when it speaks back.
3 citations
How Voice Assistants Recognize Who is Talking
This patent describes a system that uses a recorded voice sample to identify if new speech comes from the same person, allowing voice assistants to only respond to specific users.
1 citation
How a System Finds and Creates Machine Learning Models
This patent describes a system that helps users find existing machine learning models or algorithms for a specific task and, if needed, automatically trains a new model using a selected algorithm.
1 citation
How AI Learns to Manage Computer Applications Using Digital Simulators
This patent describes a system that creates and trains digital simulators, which then teach other AI programs how to automatically manage and optimize complex computer applications in a controlled virtual environment.
1 citation
How Two People's Body Movements Are Tracked in Augmented Reality
This patent describes a system for two users to accurately track their body parts, like a limb, relative to their own head-mounted display using magnetic fields, then display these virtual limbs in a shared augmented reality.
How AR Glasses Make Virtual Objects Look Solid
This patent describes how augmented reality glasses can make virtual objects appear more distinct by selectively blocking real-world light behind them using a special pixelated filter.
14 citations
How AI Connects Different Databases Using Knowledge Graphs
This patent describes a server-based method that uses artificial intelligence and two learning models to automatically find and integrate connections between data fields and data values across multiple databases that have different structures.
2 citations
How AI Agents Learn Faster by Predicting Opponents in Parallel
This patent describes a computer system that trains artificial intelligence agents more efficiently by using many processors to simultaneously learn from a simulated environment, while also explicitly predicting the actions of other agents.
1 citation
How Computers Track the Position and Angle of Multiple Objects
A method for using multiple cameras to track the exact location and orientation of many similar objects in a 3D space, even when they overlap.
How Autonomous Trucks Predict and Handle Tire Blowouts
This patent describes how an autonomous vehicle uses real-time sensor data, road conditions, and a dynamic model to predict tire failure and take corrective actions like adjusting its path or pulling over.
28 citations
2020s
How to Check if an AI Model Has Been Tampered With
This patent describes a method to verify the integrity and authorized use of an artificial intelligence model by feeding it a special digital key and comparing its response to a known good one.
1 citation
How AI Helps Pilots Talk to Flight Management Systems
A system that uses artificial intelligence to understand pilot requests and automatically trigger the right flight data or software services.
How Autonomous Cars Process Sensor Data for Driving
Intel's 2020 patent describes a system for autonomous vehicles that cleans and standardizes data from various sensors before using it to perceive the environment and make driving decisions.
72 citations
How Air Conditioners Use Radio Signals to Locate Your Remote Control
A system that helps an air conditioner remote find its own location inside a building by comparing radio signal strengths from multiple AC units against its last known position.
Using a Phone Display as a Visual Beacon Based on Activity
Apple's patent describes a device that changes its screen lighting behavior, such as pulsing or strobing, based on a user's heart rate or body temperature.
How Phones and Towers Use AI to Improve Wireless Signal Quality
This patent describes how a mobile phone and a base station work together, using machine learning, to accurately measure and predict the quality of the wireless connection, making communication more reliable.
2 citations
How Projection Neural Networks Speed Up AI Predictions
A method for making artificial intelligence models faster and more efficient by using fixed, non-trainable projections to simplify complex data before processing.
1 citation
How AI Cleans Up Irrelevant Topics in Recorded Phone Calls
A system that automatically identifies and removes 'noisy' or irrelevant topics from call center transcripts by analyzing how consistently and broadly those words appear.
1 citation
How Assistant Systems Combine Information About One Thing from Many Places
This patent describes a system that gathers all known information about a single person, place, or thing from various sources and combines it into one complete profile for an assistant system.
How AI Cameras Check Factory Parts for Flaws
This patent describes an automated system using a camera and artificial intelligence to inspect manufactured parts, identifying defect types, locations, and confidence levels, then communicating this data to a factory controller.
How Autonomous Air Taxis Use Hand Gestures and 3D Mapping
A system for operating air taxis that uses hand gestures for control and crowd-sourced 3D mapping to navigate urban environments.
1 citation
How Aircraft Systems Detect Mechanical Wear by Comparing Real-Time Performance
A system that monitors aircraft parts by comparing their actual physical movement against a computer simulation to spot mechanical degradation or performance delays.
How Computers Use Neural Networks to Read Messy Handwriting
A system that uses artificial intelligence to identify text in images by combining dictionary lookups with neural networks that analyze visual traits like handwriting style or blur.
AI Model Predicts Protein Shapes from Infrared Light Data
This patent describes a computer method that uses an artificial intelligence model to predict the detailed 3D shapes of proteins within a food ingredient by analyzing how the ingredient absorbs infrared light.
14 citations
How 5G Networks Coordinate AI Models Across Different Devices
A method for 5G networks to translate AI requirements into network performance settings so that AI models can run efficiently across cloud, edge, and local devices.
17 citations
How AI Automatically Labels Images and Checks Its Own Work
A method for training AI to label images by calculating how uncertain it is about its own predictions, allowing it to verify its accuracy without human help.
1 citation
How to Predict Protein Shapes Better Using Lab Tests and Computers
This patent describes a method to improve predicting a protein's 3D shape by combining computer simulations with actual distance measurements from specific parts of the protein in a lab.
21 citations
How AI Predicts Who Will Speak Next in a Conversation
IBM's patent describes a system that uses neural networks to analyze speech patterns and intentions to predict which person will talk next in a conversation.
Using Transcendental Math to Generate Better Random Numbers
A method for creating high-quality random numbers by using complex transcendental math equations to process raw data.
How a Drone Automatically Films a Moving Car Like a Movie Crew
This patent describes a system where a drone automatically films a moving vehicle by receiving real-time vehicle data, predicting its future path, and then flying a pre-planned "movie script" of camera shots relative to the car.
3 citations
Predicting How Molecules Interact with Proteins Using Two AI Streams
This patent describes a computer system that uses two separate artificial intelligence models, one for molecules and one for proteins, to predict how they will interact and what biological effects they might have.
7 citations
How Devices Train Shared AI Models While Keeping Your Data Private
This patent describes a method for training a machine learning model across many devices, where each device keeps some parts of the model and its data private, only sharing updates for the common, global parts of the model.
How a Chip Uses Memory to Speed Up AI Calculations
This patent describes a specialized computer chip that uses non-volatile memory and analog signals to quickly perform calculations for artificial intelligence, especially for neural networks that need to remember past information.
Training AI Models Together with Unlabeled Data Using a Teacher
This patent describes a way for multiple AI systems to learn together from data that hasn't been manually labeled, using a 'teacher' AI to create temporary labels for a 'student' AI.
37 citations
Making Neural Networks Faster by Skipping Unnecessary Calculations
A method to speed up AI training by keeping data sparse, meaning it ignores zeros to save memory and processing power during both forward and backward passes.
1 citation
Using AI to Manage Wireless Network Resources Smarter
Intel's 2025 patent on using a hierarchy of AI models to manage wireless network resources, making them more efficient by learning from network measurements and rewards.
3 citations
How Smart Air Conditioners Target and Disinfect High-Touch Surfaces
A system that uses infrared sensors to track where people touch furniture and then directs disinfecting air flows specifically to those high-contact spots.
How Apps Use Timed Content to Enforce Health Behavior Changes
A system for health apps that locks users out of missed daily lessons and forces them to move forward to the next scheduled module instead of catching up.
1 citation
Improving AI Predictions by Factoring in How Much You Trust Each Model
This patent describes a method for making an AI system more accurate by combining several individual AI models and giving more weight to the ones considered more trustworthy.
31 citations
How Snap's AR Tech Measures Distance for Virtual Button Presses
A method for mobile devices to calculate exactly when a user's finger or controller touches a virtual object in augmented reality by measuring precise distances from the camera.
2 citations
How Computers Automatically Tag Movies and Shows Better
This patent describes a system for automatically improving how movies, TV shows, and other media are tagged with descriptive labels by comparing them to similar content using a special ratio.
How Wearable Devices Use Location and Biometrics to Know Who You Are
This patent describes how a computer system can figure out who is using a wearable device by combining its location data with biometric information like a face scan or voice recording.
1 citation
Automated AI for Adapting to New Data Without Retraining
This patent describes an automated system that builds artificial intelligence models capable of adapting to new, different data without needing full retraining, by learning to ignore irrelevant changes.
46 citations
How Computers Use Brain Maps to Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease
A method for classifying stages of Alzheimer's disease by turning brain scan data into mathematical graphs and using machine learning to identify patterns.
How Multiple AI Models Detect Unusual Behavior on Computer Networks
This patent describes a computer system that uses several artificial intelligence models working together to spot unusual and potentially dangerous activity from users or devices on a computer network.
How to Combine Wide-Angle LiDAR Depth with Standard Camera Images
This patent describes a method for combining a wide-angle depth map from a LiDAR sensor, which has unevenly spaced pixels, with a standard camera image by first correcting the depth map's pixel distribution and then merging the two for a complete view.
1 citation
How Aircraft Automatically Adjust Exterior Lights Using Computer Vision
An automated system for airplanes that turns on landing and taxi lights based on altitude and uses AI to adjust brightness depending on real-time visibility conditions.
1 citation
How Computers Rank Financial News for Analysts
This patent describes a computer system that automatically collects financial news, groups similar stories, and ranks them for financial analysts using advanced text analysis and machine learning.
How Software Automatically Filters Employee Survey Results Based on Management Roles
A system that automatically restricts who can see specific employee survey results by mapping organizational reporting lines through a digital object graph.
Adapting AI Models to Fit Device Resources
This patent describes how a computer system can automatically shrink a large artificial intelligence model, specifically a "transformer" type, to fit the available computing power of a phone or other device.
6 citations
How AI Learns to Fix IT Problems by Asking for Feedback
This patent describes an AI system that continuously learns to identify and prevent IT issues by building a map of cause-and-effect relationships, getting human feedback, and automatically updating its understanding.
AI for Spotting Dam Problems in Inspection Reports
This patent describes an AI method using a "dual attention mechanism" to automatically find and organize information about dam emergencies from inspection reports, improving accuracy and reducing manual effort.
1 citation
How Computers Automatically Spot Disaster Damage Using Different Types of Images
A method for comparing two different types of images—like satellite photos and drone footage—to automatically identify areas damaged by natural disasters.
Industrial Equipment Data Organized into Smart Knowledge Graphs
Honeywell's patent describes a system that collects data from industrial equipment, makes sense of it using rules, and organizes it into a smart graph for better control and actions.
1 citation
How AI Transfers Visual Styles Between Images While Keeping Structure
This patent describes an AI method to generate a new image that combines the structure of one input image with the visual style of another, semantically related image, using a pre-trained Vision Transformer model.
2 citations
How a System Ranks Content Based on Friend Recommendations
This patent describes a system that recommends content, like TV shows, by tracking how many friends accept social media recommendations and then ranking content based on how fast those acceptances are growing.
How to Map Physical Locations to Human-Friendly Web Addresses
A system that assigns easy-to-read web domain names to specific geographic areas on a map, making it easier to search, own, and trade location-based digital data.
Matching People to Opportunities Using Personality and Body Data
This patent describes a system that infers your personality from your answers and body signals, then matches you with suitable learning or job opportunities.
1 citation
How a Computer System Improves Large Language Model Output with Structured Data
This patent describes a method where a separate computer system analyzes and refines the initial output from a large language model (LLM) by translating it into a highly structured, machine-readable language to reduce bias and improve accuracy.
5 citations
How a Computer System Fact-Checks AI Language Models
This patent describes a method for a separate computer system to fact-check and improve the output of a large language model by translating its text into a structured, machine-readable format.
12 citations
How a Computer System Checks and Improves AI Text
This patent describes a method where a separate computer system, using structured knowledge, checks and corrects the output from a large language model to make it more accurate and consistent.
4 citations
Training AI on Private Data Without Seeing It
This patent describes a way to train artificial intelligence models using private data stored on many separate computers, by generating fake data that mimics the real data's patterns, so the private data itself never leaves its original location.
How to Train AI Models with Fake Data Using Generative Networks
This patent describes a method for training artificial intelligence models using specially generated fake, or 'synthetic,' data created by a generative adversarial network, ensuring the synthetic data is high-quality and safe for training.
How to Monitor Secure Government Computer Networks Automatically
A system that automatically collects, organizes, and displays security data from highly secure government networks to help administrators spot potential threats or performance issues.
How Music Apps Learn What You Don't Want in Playlists
This patent describes how a music streaming service learns what kinds of songs or artists a user dislikes for their playlists by tracking what they repeatedly ignore, then uses that information to avoid recommending similar things in the future.
How Chips Talk Fast with Light Inside a Circuit Board
This patent describes a way to embed light-based (optical) and electricity-based (electric) computer chips directly next to each other within a circuit board, allowing them to communicate very quickly along a flat, horizontal path.
How a Recommendation System Learns What You Really Want to Watch
This patent describes a media recommendation system that creates a unique user profile, uses it to pick a starting point, and then dynamically adjusts a list of suggestions based on what you've already watched and your real-time feedback.
Stacking Chips with Light-Guiding Plastic Wires
TSMC's patent describes a method for building advanced chip packages that combine electrical and light-based circuits using polymer waveguides and an integrated fan-out redistribution layer for faster communication.
How to Safely Shut Down Microservices Without Breaking Apps
A method for shutting down parts of a software system one by one by mapping active requests to specific services, ensuring no tasks are interrupted during updates.
How AI Checks Documents for Policy Rules and Compliance
This patent describes a system where an AI model helps evaluate parts of a document against specific rules or policies given in plain language, then identifies problems or suggests fixes to ensure compliance.
How Quantum Computers Learn to Sort Data
This patent describes a method for training a data classifier using a quantum computer, where classical AI helps prepare the data and interpret the quantum results to improve the quantum system's ability to sort information.
How to Save Memory Power by Grouping Error-Correction Data
A method for memory controllers to reduce power consumption by fetching multiple sets of error-checking data in a single memory row access instead of one-by-one.
How AI Understands Answers Across Multiple Documents
Microsoft's 2024 patent on using AI to find answers by understanding how information in one document relates to information in another.
1 citation
How AI Explains Cyberattacks for Security Training
This patent describes a cybersecurity training tool that uses a large language model to explain why machine learning identified a cyber threat, based on both fake and real attacks, for security teams and regular users.
13 citations
How Chips Get Both Light and Electricity on a Special Glass Base
This patent describes a way to build computer chip packages using a special glass base that can carry both electrical signals and light signals, making chips faster and more efficient.
1 citation
How an AI System Answers Financial Questions Using Specialized Bots
This patent describes an AI system where a large language model (LLM) directs specialized machine learning agents to answer natural language questions about financial data, then refines the answers using an adversarial AI.
Using Non-AI Systems to Improve AI Text Generation
This patent describes a method where a traditional, rule-based computer system helps a Large Language Model (LLM) generate more accurate and reliable text by providing it with better context and fact-checking.
Making AI Smarter by Focusing on Unsure 'Nodes'
This 2025 patent from D5AI LLC describes a way to train AI models more effectively by boosting the learning signal for 'nodes' that aren't making clear decisions on data.
1 citation
How Robots Figure Out What They're Carrying While Moving
This patent describes how a mobile robot can estimate the weight and balance of an object it's carrying *while moving it*, and then adjust its movements for better control and safety.
How to Update AI on Small Devices with Slow Internet
This patent describes a method for efficiently updating artificial intelligence models on small, internet-connected devices, like smart cameras, by sending only the changes, or 'patches,' instead of the entire updated model, which saves bandwidth.
How AI Learns to Run Faster on Specific Computer Chips
This patent describes how a smart AI system, called a reinforcement learning agent, trains other AI models to run more efficiently on specific computer hardware by cleverly reducing their size without losing too much accuracy.
2 citations
AI System for Analyzing Medical Images Using Magnification-Aligned Transformers
This 2025 patent describes an AI system that analyzes medical images, like those from pathology slides, by using a special 'Transformer' model that understands how image details change with magnification.