SAS inventors recently gathered to celebrate the 2023 patent honorees. The dinner event marked 20 years of the annual celebration and featured photos and memories from years past.
SAS Senior Principal Patent Counsel Dwight Thompson offered opening remarks at The Umstead Hotel banquet in Cary, which he said was designed to honor “unwavering commitment to pushing boundaries to create groundbreaking and valuable solutions.”
Before naming individual recipients, Thompson took a few moments to recognize key members involved in the process, including the Patent Committee and Legal team. He also gave a special nod to first time recipients’ new identity: “As of tonight, you are an inventor.”
SAS Chief Technology Officer Bryan Harris followed, congratulating inventors and noting the additional time and effort required beyond normal daily work to earn a patent. “The [patent]team offers incredible support, but it’s work, and it takes collaboration,” he said. Harris also noted the sacrifices spouses and loved ones make to support the achievement, and he initiated a round of applause for that group in the room.
“You’ll spend about 100,000 hours working over your lifetime,” Harris said. “To be able to have a moment to share with your loved one here — let them see you and recognize your work in front of your peers is an incredible thing.” He said the investment in a special celebration of SAS inventors each year is unique in the market and thanked CEO Jim Goodnight and JMP founder and Chair John Sall.
Earning a patent, Harris said, begins with belief and involves creativity, determination and collaboration. “But it’s also important to recognize how we treat each other along the way,” he said. “There’s not a better place to work, in my opinion, than at SAS. I think this place is amazing and I think what you all are doing is amazing.”
Be inspired by the patents and recipients shown below, many of whom were in Cary on April 29. Their efforts bring SAS’ patent total to 829. The list includes eight inventors who were awarded five patents each in 2023.
Honorees listed by 2023 patent date of issue
Inventors: Brian Bowman, Gordon Keener, Richard Knight
- DISTRIBUTED COLUMNAR DATA SET STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
Inventors: Xuejun Liao, Patrick Koch
- RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM WITH IMPLICIT FEEDBACK
Inventors: Steven Enck, Charles Cavalier, Sarah Gauby, Scott Kolodzieski
- AUTOMATED STREAMING DATA MODEL GENERATION WITH PARALLEL PROCESSING CAPABILITY
Inventors: Kedar Prabhudesai, Varunraj Valsaraj, Jinxin Yi, Daniel Woo, Roger Baldridge
- PREDICTING AND MANAGING REQUESTS FOR COMPUTING RESOURCES OR OTHER RESOURCES
Inventors: Ryan Lekivetz, Joseph Morgan, Caleb King, Bradley Jones
- INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR CUSTOMIZABLE COMBINATORIAL TEST CONSTRUCTION
Inventors: John Sall
- INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR SPECIFICATION RATE SETTINGS AND PREDICTIONS
Inventors: Dev Kakde, Haoyu Wang, Anya McGuirk
- QUALITY PREDICTION USING PROCESS DATA
Inventors: Yan Gao, Joshua Griffin, Yu-Min Lin, Yan Xu, Alireza Yektamaram, Amod Ankulkar, Aishwarya Sharma, Girish Kolapkar, Kiran Bhole, Yogender Kushawah, Jorge Silva
- OPTIMAL NUMBER OF THREADS DETERMINATION SYSTEM
Inventors: Scott Kolodzieski, Vince Deters, Robert Levey, Shu Huang
- ROUTER MANAGEMENT BY AN EVENT STREAM PROCESSING CLUSTER MANAGER
Inventors: Wei Xu, Rob Pratt, Natalia Summerville
- PIECEWISE LINEARIZATION OF MULTIVARIABLE DATA
Inventors: Terisa Roberts, Vipul Katiyar, Amol Malani
- INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MONITORING COMPUTER MODELS
Inventors: Henry Bequet, Huina Chen
- GPU ACCELERATION OF EMBARRASSINGLY PARALLEL TASKS IN MANY TASK COMPUTING FLOWS
Inventors: Ryan Lekivetz, Joseph Morgan, Caleb King, Bradley Jones, Mark Bailey, Jacob Rhyne
- EXPERIMENT DESIGN VARIANTS TERM ESTIMATION GUI
Inventors: Ryan Lekivetz, Joseph Morgan, Caleb King, Bradley Jones, Mark Bailey, Jacob Rhyne
- EXPERIMENT DESIGN VARIANTS EVALUATION TABLE GUI
Inventors: Caleb King, Ryan Lekivetz, Joseph Morgan, Yeng Saanchi, Bradley Jones
- GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR POWER AND UNCERTAINTY INTERVAL CONSTRUCTIONS
Inventors: Reza Soleimani, Sam Leeman-Munk, David Styles
- MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL FOR PERFORMING CONTEXTUAL SUMMARIZATION OF TEXT DATA
Inventors: Christian Macaro, Fedor Reva, Rocco Cannizzaro
- DISAGGREGATION SYSTEM
Inventors: David Wheaton, Stuart Cooke, William Nadolski
- TECHNIQUES FOR IMAGE CONTENT EXTRACTION
Inventors: Scott Kolodzieski, Vince Deters, Shu Huang, Robert Levey
- ROUTER MANAGEMENT BY AN EVENT STREAM PROCESSING CLUSTER MANAGER
Inventors: Jarad Forristal, Joshua Griffin, Alireza Yektamaram, Wenwen Zhou
- DEEP LEARNING MODEL TRAINING SYSTEM
Inventors: Henry Bequet, Ron Stogner, Eric Yang, Ricky Zhang
- AUTOMATED VIRTUAL MACHINE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN CONTAINER-SUPPORTED MANY TASK COMPUTING
Inventors: Stuart Mackle
- DIRECTED GRAPH INTERFACE FOR DETECTING AND MITIGATING ANOMALIES IN ENTITY INTERACTIONS
Inventors: Raj Solanki, Jie Zhong, Elaine Kowalewski
- STATE MONITORING SYSTEM
Inventors: Daniele Cazzari, Hardi Desai, Allen Langlois, Jonathan Walker, Tom Tuning, Saurabh Mishra, Varunraj Valsaraj
- FLEXIBLE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE FOR PERFORMING DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS
Inventors: Darryl Yewchin, Todd Foreman, Bob Rood
- PARALLEL AND INCREMENTAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR DATA PROTECTION
Inventors: Henry Bequet, Ron Stogner, Eric Yang, Ricky Zhang
- DATA OBJECT PREPARATION FOR EXECUTION OF MULTIPLE TASK ROUTINE INSTANCES IN MANY TASK COMPUTING
Inventors: Henry Bequet, Ron Stogner, Eric Yang, Ricky Zhang
- AUTOMATED JOB FLOW CANCELLATION FOR MULTIPLE TASK ROUTINE INSTANCE ERRORS IN MANY TASK COMPUTING
Inventors: Iman Vasheghani Farahani, Ron Hodgin, Sujatha Pothireddy,
Kaushal Chauhan, Bhupendra Bendale, Harshad Bapat, Kritika Misra
- COMPUTERIZED ENGINES AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR CUSTOMIZING AND VALIDATING FORECASTING MODELS
Inventors: Himanshu Bhambhlani
- NETWORK ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR GROUPING CONNECTED OBJECTS AND EXECUTING REMEDIAL MEASURES
Inventors: Henry Bequet, Ron Stogner, Eric Yang, Ricky Zhang
- MESSAGE QUEUE PROTOCOL FOR SEQUENTIAL EXECUTION OF RELATED TASK ROUTINES IN MANY TASK COMPUTING
Inventors: Rich Wellum, Joseph Henry, Holden O’Neal, John Waller
- SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING, DEPLOYING AND MAINTAINING COMPUTING CLUSTERS
Inventors: Ji Shen, Jared Dean, Xilong Chen, Jan Chvosta
- COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY ANALYZING A VIDEO OF A PHYSICAL ACTIVITY USING A MODEL AND PROVIDING CORRESPONDING FEEDBACK
Inventors: Henry Bequet, Ron Stogner, Eric Yang, Ricky Zhang
- AUTOMATED JOB FLOW GENERATION TO PROVIDE OBJECT VIEWS IN CONTAINER-SUPPORTED MANY TASK COMPUTING
Inventors: Yan Gao, Joshua Griffin, Yu-Min Lin, Bengt Pederson,
Ricky Tharrington, Pei-Yi Tan, Ray Wright
- AUTOMATED MACHINE LEARNING TEST SYSTEM
Inventors: Jody Steadman
- DYNAMIC PER-NODE PRE-PULLING IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Xiaozhuo Cheng, Samuel Henderson, Xu Yang
- MULTITHREADED SPEECH-TO-TEXT PROCESSING
Inventors: Xinmin Wu, Xin Hunt, Ralph Abbey
- BIAS MITIGATING MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING SYSTEM
Inventors: Kedar Prabhudesai, Jonathan Walker, Sanjeev Heda, Varunraj Valsaraj, Allen Langlois, Frederic Combaneyre, Hamza Ghadyali, Nabaruna Karmakar
- MANUFACTURING DEFECTIVE OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM
Inventors: Nancy Rausch, Ruth Akintunde, Brant Kay
- SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR TAXONOMY-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF UNLABELED STRUCTURED DATASETS
Inventors: Matt Simpson, Caiqin Wang, Nilesh Jakhotiya, Michele Trovero
- PARALLEL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR EXPEDITING RECONCILIATION FOR A HIERARCHY OF FORECASTS ON A COMPUTER SYSTEM
Inventors: Xiaozhuo Cheng, Xiaolong Li, Xu Yang
- MULTI-THREADED SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION
Inventors: Dev Kakde, Haoyu Wang, Anya McGuirk
- QUALITY PREDICTION USING PROCESS DATA
Inventors: Robert Blanchard, Neela Vengateshwaran
- SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING AND USING A MULTI-STAGE OBJECT CLASSIFICATION AND CONDITION PIPELINE
Inventors: Nancy Rausch, Ruth Akintunde, Brant Kay
- SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR TAXONOMY-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF UNLABELED STRUCTURED DATASETS
Inventors: Jonathan Walker, Hardi Desai, Xuejun Liao, Varunraj Valsaraj
- METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING ITEM-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS
Inventors: Kevin Scott, Dev Kakde, Arin Chaudhuri, Sergiy Peredriy
- ANOMALY DETECTION AND DIAGNOSTICS BASED ON MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
Inventors: Scott Kolodzieski, Vince Deters, Robert Levey, Shu Huang
- ROUTER MANAGEMENT BY AN EVENT STREAM PROCESSING CLUSTER MANAGER
Inventors: Caleb King, Ryan Lekivetz, Joseph Morgan, Yeng Saanchi, Bradley Jones
- GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR POWER AND UNCERTAINTY INTERVAL CONSTRUCTIONS
