SAS inventors came together on April 24 at The Umstead Hotel to celebrate something completely unique: ideas. Ideas that became patents. 54 of them, to be exact.
During his remarks, CTO Bryan Harris dialed in on just how important new ideas are in our current environment. “When you think about ChatGPT, large language models and things like that, you’ve got to start to wonder: What’s it going to be like when … you’re one prompt away from understanding everything? What does it mean to have unique ideas?”
Harris referenced the growing information asymmetry, or imbalance between two entities in their knowledge of relevant factors and details, as these technologies expand.
“It’s going to challenge what it means to be human,” he said. “We will all have to adapt. But the ability to see something unique and build it is something truly special.”
“I want to say thank you for the 54 patents that have been awarded this year — everyone here who has had incredible ideas that have been identified and accepted as patents.” He also thanked the spouses and partners in the ballroom … “whoever has been in your corner.”
Tim Wilson, Director, Patents, and Dwight U. Thompson, Senior Principal Patent Counsel, also took the stage that evening to recognize SAS inventors, several of whom were first-time recipients. This year’s patents bring SAS’ total to more than 775.
If you’re interested in exploring the SAS Patent Program and the incentives for inventors, learn more on the Legal website.
Now, a round of applause for the inventors and their patents!
Honorees listed by 2022 patent date of issue
Inventors: Joseph Morgan, Ryan Lekivetz, Bradley Jones, Caleb King
- TRANSFORMATION AND EVALUATION OF DISALLOWED COMBINATIONS IN DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS
Inventors: Scott Kolodzieski, Vince Deters, Shu Huang, Robert Levey
- EVENT STREAM PROCESSING CLUSTER MANAGER
Inventor: Yingjian Wang
- DISTRIBUTED CLASSIFICATION COMPUTING SYSTEM
Inventors: James Morris, Nicholas Ablitt, Manoj Chari
- GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR SEARCHING ON A NETWORK PATTERN
Inventors: Moray Laing, David Pope, Keith Holdaway, James Duarte
- CONTROL VARIABLE DETERMINATION TO MAXIMIZE A DRILLING RATE OF PENETRATION
Inventors: Ed Summers, Sean Mealin, Julianna Langston, Greg Kraus, Tyler Williamson, Lisa Morton, Jesse Sookne, Brice Smith
- USER INTERFACES FOR CONVERTING GEOSPATIAL DATA INTO AUDIO OUTPUTS
Inventors: Brian Bowman, Gordon Keener, Richard Knight
- DISTRIBUTED COLUMNAR DATA SET SUBSET RETRIEVAL
Inventors: Biruk Gebremariam, Taiping He
- DISTRIBUTED INTERACTION FEATURE GENERATION SYSTEM
Inventor: Pradeep Kumar Swain
- DATASET OVERLAP QUERY SYSTEM
Inventors: Hansi Jiang, Arin Chaudhuri
- INCREMENTAL SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION IN SUPPORT OF MACHINE LEARNING
Inventors: Kyungduck Cha, Carol Sadek, Zohreh Asgharzadeh
- DETECTING AND MITIGATING ANOMALIES AND DEGRADATION ASSOCIATED WITH DEVICES AND THEIR OPERATIONS
Inventors: Taiyeong Lee, Michael Leonard
- COMPUTER-VISION TECHNIQUES FOR TIME-SERIES RECOGNITION AND ANALYSIS
Inventors: Tom Anderson, Priyadarshini Sharma, Mark Konya, James Caton
- DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES FOR MONITORING PHYSICAL DEVICES AND RESOLVING OPERATIONAL EVENTS
Inventors: Bryan Harris, Glen Goodwin, Sean Dyer, Alex Boakye, Chris Smith, Pankaj Telang, Damian Herrick
- CYBERSECURITY SYSTEM
Inventors: Ryan Lekivetz, Joseph Morgan, Caleb King, Bradley Jones
- DATA SET GENERATION FOR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Inventors: Guohui Wu, Jan Chvosta, Wan Xu, Gunce Walton, Xilong Chen
- AUTOMATIC SPATIAL REGRESSION SYSTEM
Inventors: Ernest Pasour, Clay Barker, Paris Faison
- SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVE TEXT REGRESSION MODEL BUILDING
Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Xiaozhuo Cheng, Xu Yang
- DUAL USE OF AUDIO NOISE LEVEL IN SPEECH-TO-TEXT FRAMEWORK
Inventors: Nancy Rausch, Roger Barney, JP Trawinski
- INTELLIGENT DATA CURATION
Inventors: Caleb King, Joseph Morgan, Ryan Lekivetz, Bradley Jones
- INTERACTIVE DIAGNOSTICS FOR EVALUATING DESIGNS FOR MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
Inventors: Brian Bowman, Gordon Keener
- DISTRIBUTED COLUMNAR DATA SET RETRIEVAL
Inventors: Xilong Chen, Doug Cairns, Jan Chvosta, Bruce Elsheimer, Yang Zhao, Ming-Chun Chang, Gunce Walton, Michael Lamm
- CAUSAL INFERENCE AND POLICY OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM BASED ON DEEP LEARNING MODELS
Inventors: Hamoon Azizsoltani, Prathaban Mookiah, Weichen Wang, Tom O’Connell
- AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING RULES FOR EVENT DETECTION SYSTEMS
Inventors: Ryan Parker, Clay Barker, Jeremy Ash, Christopher Gotwalt
- ANALYTIC SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL MODEL SELECTION BASED ON WAVELET COEFFICIENTS
Inventors: Altan Gulcu, Xiaodong Yao
- HANDLING BULK REQUESTS FOR RESOURCES
Inventors: John Gottula, Bryan Mutell, Mike Henderson
- METHOD TO INCREASE DISCOVERY PIPELINE HIT RATES AND LAB TO FIELD TRANSLATION
Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Xiaozhuo Cheng, Xu Yang
- DUAL USE OF ACOUSTIC MODEL IN SPEECH-T0-TEXT FRAMEWORK
Inventor: Xu Chen
- MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
Inventors: Xuejun Liao, Patrick Koch, Shunping Huang, Yan Xu
- RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM
Inventors: Henry Bequet, Huina Chen
- GPU ACCELERATION OF EMBARRASSINGLY PARALLEL TASKS IN MANY TASK COMPUTING FLOWS
Inventors: Xinmin Wu, Yingjian Wang, Xiangqian Hu
- NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING SYSTEM
Inventors: Xiaozhuo Cheng, Xu Yang, Xiaolong Li, Biljana Wilsey, Haipeng Liu, Jared Peterson
- SPEECH-TO-ANALYTICS FRAMEWORK WITH SUPPORT FOR LARGE N-GRAM CORPORA
Inventors: Anand Phand, Sudeshna Guhaneogi, Narender CV, Ravinder Chauhan, Shikha Bhat, Kaustubh Khandwe, Shalini Sinha, Vineet Roy, Stephen Ondrik, Steffen-Horst Schluter, Joseph Martino, John Zhao, Pravinkumar Bhalerao, Alina Asadullina, Vitaly Plekhanov, Elizaveta Lavrenova, Dmitry Bodunov, Assol Kubaeva, Valentina Larina
- AUTOMATED TRENDING INPUT RECOGNITION AND ASSIMILATION IN FORECAST MODELING
Inventors: Amir Dizche, Ye Liu, Xin Hunt, Jorge Silva
- TABULAR DATA GENERATION WITH ATTENTION FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING SYSTEM
Inventors: Teresa Jade, Xiao Li, Chunqi Zuo, Paul Kovach
- LEVERAGING TEXT PROFILES TO SELECT AND CONFIGURE MODELS FOR USE WITH TEXTUAL DATASETS
Inventors: Sergiy Peredriy, Keith Holdaway
- MACHINE-LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING TOPS OF GEOLOGICAL LAYERS IN SUBTERRANEAN FORMATIONS
Inventors: Ruiwen Zhang, Weichen Wang, Jorge Silva, Ye Liu, Hamoon Azizsoltani, Prathaban Mookiah
- TABULAR DATA GENERATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING SYSTEM
Inventors: Xinmin Wu, Xin Hunt
- BIAS MITIGATING MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING SYSTEM
Inventors: Xilong Chen, Tao Huang, Jan Chvosta
- DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM
Inventors: Yi Liao, Charlie Board, William Nadolski, David Wheaton, Heather Goodykoontz,
Sanjay Arangala, Karthik Nakkeeran
- TECHNIQUES FOR IMAGE CONTENT EXTRACTION
Inventors: Henry Bequet, Ron Stogner, Eric Yang, Qing Gong
- IMPLICIT STATUS IN MANY TASK COMPUTING
Inventors: Moray Laing, Keith Holdaway
- FLUID FLOW BACK PREDICTION
Inventors: Sean Mealin, Ed Summers, Mitchel Soltys, Ralph Marshall, Jesse Sookne, Brice Smith, Gregory Kraus, Eric Bolender, Julianna Langston, Lisa Morton
- USER INTERFACES FOR CONVERTING NODE-LINK DATA INTO AUDIO OUTPUTS
Inventors: Henry Bequet, Ricky Zhang
- FEDERATED AREA COHERENCY ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES IN MANY-TASK COMPUTING
Inventors: Brian Bowman, Mark Gass
- DISTRIBUTED DATA SET ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION
Inventors: Xilong Chen, Yang Zhao, Sylvie Kabisa, Bruce Elsheimer
- FLEXIBLE PROGRAM FUNCTIONS USABLE FOR CUSTOMIZING EXECUTION OF A SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO PROCESS IN RELATION TO A STATE SPACE MODEL
Inventors: Reza Soleimani, Samuel Leeman-Munk, James Cox, David Styles
- GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR VISUALIZING CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO A MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL’S OUTPUT
Inventors: Dev Kakde, Haoyu Wang, Anya McGuirk
- QUALITY PREDICTION USING PROCESS DATA
Inventors: Teresa Jade, Xiao Li, Chunqi Zuo, Paul Kovach
- LEVERAGING TEXT PROFILES TO SELECT AND CONFIGURE MODELS FOR USE WITH TEXTUAL DATASETS
Inventors: Henry Bequet, Ron Stogner, Eric Yang, Qing Gong
- COORDINATED PERFORMANCE CONTROLLER FAILOVER IN MANY TASK COMPUTING
Inventors: Xin Hunt, Xinmin Wu, Ralph Abbey
- BIAS MITIGATING MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING SYSTEM
Inventors: Afshin Oroojlooyjadid, Reza Nazari, Davood Hajinezhad, Amir Dizche, Jorge Silva, Jonathan Walker, Hardi Desai, Robert Blanchard, Varunraj Valsaraj, Ruiwen Zhang, Weichen Wang, Ye Liu, Hamoon Azizsoltani, Prathaban Mookiah
- AUTOMATED CONTROL OF A MANUFACTURING PROCESS
Inventors: Karen Jirak, Rick Matthews, James Yang
- USER INTERFACE CREATION SYSTEM
Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Samuel Henderson, Xiaozhuo Cheng, Xu Yang
- SPEECH SEGMENTATION BASED ON COMBINATION OF PAUSE DETECTION AND SPEAKER DIARIZATION
