NEC Laboratories America

Patents | Machine Learning

Our Machine Learning researchers have produced patented innovations spanning model design, learning algorithms, and applied AI techniques. These patents reflect work that supports both foundational machine learning advances and their practical applications.

Compositional Image Generation And Manipulation

Patent Number: 12,670,628
Shaobo Han; Renqiang Min; Hans Peter Graf; Changhao Shi; Kai Li
June 30, 2026

Peptide Search System For Immunotherapy

Patent Number: 12,651,647
Renqiang Min; Hans Peter Graf; Ziqi Chen
June 9, 2026

Video Generation With Latent Diffusion Probabilistic Models

Patent Number: 12,633,003
Haomiao Ni; Hans Peter Graf; Kai Li; Renqiang Min
May 19, 2026

Machine Learning of Spatio-Temporal Manifolds For Source-Free Video Domain Adaptation

Patent Number: 12,592,063
Kai Li; Renqiang Min; Deep Patel; Erik Kruus
March 31, 2026

Few-Shot Video Classification

Patent Number: 12,567,255
Kai Li; Haifeng Xia; Renqiang Min
March 3, 2026

Weakly Supervised Action Localization

Patent Number: 12,567,231
Erik Kruus; Kai Li; Xin Hu; Deep Patel; Renqiang Min
March 3, 2026

Counting And Extracting Opinions In Product Reviews

Patent Number: 12,541,777
Christopher Malon; Hideo Kobayashi
February 3, 2026

Binding Peptide Generation For Mhc Class I Proteins With Deep Reinforcement Learning Utilizing Encoding Methods Of A Blosum Matrix For Immunotherapy Decision Making

Patent Number: 12,518,853
Hans Peter Graf; Ziqi Chen; Renqiang Min
January 6, 2026

Binding Peptide Generation For Mhc Class I Proteins With Deep Reinforcement Learning

Patent Number: 12,518,852
Hans Peter Graf; Renqiang Min; Ziqi Chen
January 6, 2026

Binding Peptide Generation For Mhc Class I Proteins With Deep Reinforcement Learning For Immunotherapy Decision Making

Patent Number: 12,518,851
Renqiang Min; Hans Peter Graf; Ziqi Chen
January 6, 2026

Binding Peptide Generation for MHC Class I Proteins With Deep Reinforcement Learning For Immunotherapy Decision Making

Patent Number: 12,512,182
Hans Peter Graf; Renqiang Min; Ziqi Chen
December 30, 2025

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Video Classification With Optical-Flow Semantics

Patent Number: 12,511,899
Kai Li; Haifeng Xia; Renqiang Min
December 30, 2025

A Peptide-Based Vaccine Generation System With Dual Projection Generative Adversarial Networks

Patent Number: 12,488,859
Hans Peter Graf; Ligong Han; Renqiang Min
December 2, 2025

A Peptide-Based Vaccine Generation System With Dual Projection Generative Adversarial Networks

Patent Number: 12,482,534
Renqiang Min; Ligong Han; Hans Peter Graf
November 25, 2025

Source-Free Cross Domain Detection Method With Strong Data Augmentation And Self-Trained Mean Teacher Modeling

Patent Number: 12,462,538
Hans Peter Graf; Renqiang Min; Kai Li
November 4, 2025

T-Cell Receptor Repertoire Selection Prediction With Physical Model Augmented Pseudo-Labeling For Personalized Medicine Decision Making

Patent Number: 12,462,895
Hans Peter Graf; Erik Kruus; Yiren Jian; Renqiang Min
November 4, 2025

Extracting Explanations From Supporting Evidence

Patent Number: 12,450,440
Christopher Malon; Nitish Joshi
October 21, 2025

Optimizing Multi-Camera Multi-Entity Artificial Intelligence Tracking Systems

Patent Number: 12,430,921
Iain Melvin; Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil; Deep Patel
September 30, 2025

Self-Supervised Multimodal Representation Learning With Cascade Positive Example Mining

Patent Number: 12,400,449
Cheng-En Wu; Farley Lai; Asim Kadav
August 26, 2025

Learning Orthogonal Factorization In Gan Latent Space

Patent Number: 12,288,389
Hans Peter Graf; Ligong Han; Renqiang Min
April 29, 2025

Tumor Cell Isolines

Patent Number: 12,288,325
Eric Cosatto
April 29, 2025

Temporal Augmentation For Training Video Reasoning Systems

Patent Number: 12,266,157
Asim Kadav; Farley Lai
April 1, 2025

Enhanced Word Embedding

Patent Number: 12,205,026
Christopher Malon
January 21, 2025

Multi-Hop Evidence Pursuit

Patent Number: 12,205,027
Christopher Malon
January 21, 2025

Multi-Scale Tumor Cell Detection And Classification

Patent Number: 12,198,331
Eric Cosatto; Kyle Gerard
January 14, 2025

Keypoint Based Action Localization

Patent Number: 12,198,397
Asim Kadav; Farley Lai; Hans Peter Graf; Yi Huang
January 14, 2025

Semi-Automatic Data Collection And Association For Multi-Camera Tracking

Patent Number: 12,131,489
Farley Lai; Asim Kadav; Likitha Lakshminarayanan
October 29, 2024

Controlled Text Generation With Supervised Representation Disentanglement And Mutual Information Minimization

Patent Number:12,045,727
Pengyu Cheng; Christopher Malon; Renqiang Min
July 23, 2024

Contextual Text Generation For Question Answering And Text Summarization With Supervised Representation Disentanglement And Mutual Information Minimization

Patent Number: 11,887,008
Hans Peter Graf; Renqiang Min; Christopher Malon
January 30, 2024

Sensor Contribution Ranking

Patent Number: 11,763,198
Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil; Shuchu Han
September 19, 2023

Multi-Hop Transformer For Spatio-Temporal Reasoning And Localization

Patent Number: 11,741,712
Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil; Renqiang Min; Hans Peter Graf; Asim Kadav; Honglu Zhou; Farley Lai
August 29, 2023

Contextual Grounding Of Natural Language Phrases In Images

Patent Number: 11,620,814
Asim Kadav; Ning Xie; Farley Lai
April 4, 2023

Action Recognition With High-Order Interaction Through Spatial-Temporal Object Tracking

Patent Number: 11,600,067
Jie Chen; Farley Lai; Asim Kadav
March 7, 2023

Efficient and fine-grained video retrieval

Patent Number: 11,568,247
Asim Kadav; Hans Peter Graf; Meera Hahn; Iain Melvin
January 31, 2023

Multi-Detector Probabilistic Reasoning For Natural Language Queries

Patent Number: 11,494,377
Eric Cosatto; Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil
November 8, 2022

Keypoint based pose tracking using entailment

Patent Number: 11,475,590
Farley Lai; Asim Kadav; Michael Snower; Hans Peter Graf
October 18, 2022

Keypoint based pose tracking using entailment

Patent Number: 11,475,590
Farley Lai; Asim Kadav; Michael Snower; Hans Peter Graf
October 18, 2022

Self-Supervised Sequential Variational Autoencoder for Disentagled Data Generation

Patent Number: 11,423,655
Hans Peter Graf; Yizhe Zhu; Renqiang Min; Asim Kadav
August 23, 2022

Communication Efficient Sparse-Reduce In Distributed Machine Learning

Patent Number: 11,356,334
Erik Kruus; Asim Kadav
June 7, 2022

Learning Representations Of Generalized Cross-Modal Entailment Tasks

Patent Number: 11,250,299
Ning Xie; Farley Lai; Asim Kadav
February 15, 2022

Convolutional Neural Network Architecture With Adaptive Filters

Patent Number: 11,227,108
Dinghan Shen; Renqiang Min; Yitong Li
January 18, 2022

Teaching Syntax By Adversarial Distraction

Patent Number: 11,194,974
Juho Kim; Asim Kadav; Christopher Malon
December 7, 2021

Multi-Scale Text Filter Conditioned Generative Adversarial Networks

Patent Number: 11,170,256
Yogesh Balaji; Renqiang Min; Bing Bai
November 9, 2021

Reconstruction-Based Anomaly Detection

Patent Number: 11,120,127
Eric Cosatto; Xavier Fontaine; Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil
September 14, 2021

False Alarm Reduction System For Automatic Manufacturing Quality Control

Patent Number: 11,087,452
Renqiang Min; Farley Lai; Eric Cosatto; Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil; Xavier Fontaine; Hans Peter Graf
August 10, 2021

System And Method For Communication Efficient Sparse-Reduce

Patent Number: 11,086,814
Erik Kruus; Asim Kadav
August 10, 2021

Deep Group Disentangled Embedding And Network Weight Generation For Visual Inspection

Patent Number: 11,087,174
Renqiang Min; Kai Li; Hans Peter Graf; Bing Bai
August 10, 2021

Network Reparameterization For New Class Categorization

Patent Number: 11,087,184
Hans Peter Graf; Kai Li; Bing Bai; Renqiang Min
August 10, 2021

Context-Aware Attention-Based Neural Network For Interactive Question Answering

Patent Number: 11,087,199
Renqiang Min; Huayu Li; Asim Kadav
August 10, 2021

Detecting Dangerous Driving Situations By Parsing A Scene Graph Of Radar Detections

Patent Number: 11,055,605
Hans Peter Graf; Iain Melvin; Eric Cosatto
July 6, 2021

Anomaly Detection With Predictive Normalization

Patent Number: 10,964,011
Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil; Felix Wu; Eric Cosatto
March 30, 2021

Surveillance System Using Adaptive Spatiotemporal Convolution Feature Representation With Dynamic Abstraction For Video To Language Translation

Patent Number: 10,929,681
Yunchen Pu; Renqiang Min
February 23, 2021

Verifying Textual Claims With A Document Corpus

Patent Number: 10,929,453
Christopher Malon
February 23, 2021

Unsupervised Neighbor-Preserving Embedding For Image Stream Visualization And Anomaly Detection

Patent Number: 10,885,627
Farley Lai; Renqiang Min; Hans Peter Graf; Eric Cosatto
January 5, 2021

Security System Using A Convolutional Neural Network With Pruned Filters

Patent Number: 10,885,437
Asim Kadav; Hao Li; Igor Durdanovic; Hans Peter Graf
January 5, 2021

System And Method For Faster Interfaces On Text-Based Tasks Using Adaptive Memory Networks

Patent Number: 10,853,575
Asim Kadav; Daniel Li
December 1, 2020

Unsupervised Image-Based Anomaly Detection Using Multi-Scale Context-Dependent Deep Autoencoding Gaussian Mixture Model

Patent Number: 10,853,937
Xavier Fontaine; Renqiang Min; Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil; Eric Cosatto; Hans Peter Graf; Farley Lai
December 1, 2020

Passive Pruning Of Filters In A Convolutionall Neural Network

Patent Number: 10,832,136
Hao Li; Igor Durdanovic; Hans Peter Graf; Asim Kadav
November 10, 2020

Pruning Filters For Efficient Convnets For Surveillance Applications

Patent Number: 10,796,169
Asim Kadav; Igor Durdanovic; Hans Peter Graf
October 6, 2020

Word Embedding System

Patent Number: 10,789,942
Dinghan Shen; Renqiang Min
September 29, 2020

Pruning Filters For Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks For Image Recognition In Vehicles

Patent Number: 10,755,136
Hans Peter Graf; Igor Durdanovic; Asim Kadav