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Patents Granted in 2022

Landmark US patents granted in 2022 — explained in plain English. The inventions, the assignees, and what each one actually protects.

Granted in 2022

24 patents

US 11361763 · 2022 · Amazon Technologies

How Smart Speakers Know You're Talking to Them After a Command

oil and gas

US RE49155 · 2022 · Halliburton Energy Services Inc

Electric or Natural Gas Blending and Pumping for Oil Wells

US 11311959 · 2022 · Meld Manufacturing

Building Metal Parts Without Melting: Solid-State 3D Printing System

automotive

US 11436484 · 2022 · Nvidia Corp

Nvidia's Method for Training Self-Driving Car AI in Simulations

US 11429762 · 2022 · Amazon Technologies

How Computers Train AI Models Using Separate Virtual Simulations

US 11295225 · 2022 · D Wave Systems Inc

How D-Wave Clears Magnetic Noise in Quantum Computers

aerospace

US 11377237 · 2022 · United Launch Alliance LLC

How Rockets Catch Up to Satellites Faster Using Out-of-Plane Steering

US 11417435 · 2022 · GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas

How a Nuclear Reactor's Rotating Drum Controls Power

US 11239459 · 2022 · GM Global Technology Operations

Making Solid-State Battery Electrodes That Don't Swell and Crack

US 11391826 · 2022 · Magna Electronics

How Car Factories Calibrate LIDAR Sensors for Self-Driving Cars

US 11490056 · 2022 · Toyota Motor

How a Drone Automatically Films a Moving Car Like a Movie Crew

US 11416536 · 2022 · Comcast Cable Communications

How a Recommendation System Uses Dislikes to Suggest New Content

US 11235681 · 2022 · Inventus Holdings

Smart EV Charging to Protect Battery Life During Long Parking

US 11507851 · 2022 · Samsung Electronics Co

How AI Connects Different Databases Using Knowledge Graphs

aerospace

US 11492143 · 2022 · Atomos Nuclear and Space Corp

How Space Taxis and Locomotives Move Satellites Between Orbits

US 11480727 · 2022 · Sumitomo Electric Industries

How a Multi-Core Optical Fiber Reduces Signal Interference

ai ml

US 11521601 · 2022 · Invoca Inc

How AI Cleans Up Irrelevant Topics in Recorded Phone Calls

aerospace

US 11513606 · 2022

How Autonomous Air Taxis Use Hand Gestures and 3D Mapping

aerospace

US 11511890 · 2022 · Honda Motor Co Ltd

How Drones Test Their Balance While Flying

US 11514901 · 2022 · Amazon Technologies

How Voice Assistants Recognize Who is Talking

US 11507804 · 2022 · Commissariat a lEnergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives CEA

Efficient Hardware for Spiking Neural Network Calculations

ai ml

US 11429864 · 2022 · Moffett International Co Ltd Hong Kong

Making Neural Networks Faster by Skipping Unnecessary Calculations

US 11295174 · 2022 · Royal Bank of Canada

How AI Agents Learn Faster by Predicting Opponents in Parallel

US 11238372 · 2022 · VMware

How AI Learns to Manage Computer Applications Using Digital Simulators

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