2024 patents represent innovative, never-before-seen technology and solutions
SAS inventors were honored at the 20th annual Patent Dinner at The Umstead Hotel. In 2024, 44 patents were issued to SAS employees, representing technological advances in grid computing, software development testing, AI, wearable health devices, digital advertising, fraud protection and more.
“Each patent represents countless hours of hard work and collaboration in pursuit of excellence,” said Dwight Thompson, Sr Principal Patent Counsel. Thompson oversees the SAS Patent Program to identify and seek protection for inventions made by SAS employees.
Spouses, mothers and children, including one deployed in the Middle East, surprised several inventors with heartfelt video messages expressing pride in their loved ones’ dedication and achievement.
Chief Technology Officer Bryan Harris offered congratulatory remarks, calling out efforts he believes represent pure creativity in doing something that has never been done before. “To be here tonight with every one of you who has achieved that is just an incredible experience,” he said.
Harris is committed to ensuring that SAS continues to build intellectual property. “It’s not just about building an IP war chest; it’s about making sure the ideas we bring to market are truly unique and differentiated,” he said. “Patents are a measuring stick to know we’ve done just that.”
He encouraged inventors to be ambassadors to others in the company, helping colleagues realize that they may have the beginning of the next big idea or solution. “Help them understand: You’ve got the ideas, you’ve got the grit, and you’ve got the passion and knowledge. You can also be someone who creates a patent at SAS.”
See all of the 2024 patent honorees below.
US Patent No. 11,860,212
- Inventors: Tom Anderson, Priya Sharma, Mark Konya, Yuwei Liao
- Title: GRID STATUS MONITORING SYSTEM
- Issued: January 2, 2024
US Patent No. 11,862,171
- Inventors: Xiaozhuo Cheng, Xiaolong Li, Sam Henderson, Xu Yang
- Title: MULTITHREADED SPEECH DATA PREPROCESSING
- Issued: January 2, 2024
Canadian Patent No. 3,169,394
- Inventors: Brian Bowman, Mark Gass*
- Title: DISTRIBUTED DATA SET ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION
- Issued: January 9, 2024
US Patent No. 11,875,189
- Inventors: Rich Wellum, Joseph Henry, Holden O’Neal, John Waller
- Title: SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING, DEPLOYING AND MAINTAINING COMPUTING CLUSTERS
- Issued: January 16, 2024
US Patent No. 11,875,238
- Inventors: Piotr Kaczynski, Aneta Maksymiuk, Artur Skalski, Wioletta Stobieniecka, Dwijendra Dwivedi
- Title: FEATURE STORAGE MANAGER
- Issued: January 16, 2024
US Patent No. 11,886,329
- Inventors: Steven Gardner, Connie Dunbar, Bruce Elsheimer, Greg Dunbar, Joshua Griffin, Yan Gao
- Title: AUTOMATED MACHINE LEARNING TEST SYSTEM
- Issued: January 30, 2024
US Patent No. 11,887,012
- Inventors: Sudipta Kolay, Steven Xu, Kai Shen, Zohreh Asgharzadeh
- Title: ANOMALY DETECTION USING RPCA AND ICA
- Issued: January 30, 2024
US Patent No. 11,914,548
- Inventors: Shyam Khatkale
- Title: FLOW MODEL COMPUTATION SYSTEM WITH DISCONNECTED GRAPHS
- Issued: February 27, 2024
US Patent No. 11,922,311
- Inventors: Xinmin Wu, Ricky Tharrington, Ralph Abbey
- Title: BIAS MITIGATING MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING SYSTEM WITH MULTI-CLASS TARGET
- Issued: March 5, 2024
US Patent No. 11,922,947
- Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Xiaozhuo Cheng, Xu Yang
- Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING AND USING AN AUDIO TRANSCRIPT CORRECTION MACHINE LEARNING MODEL
- Issued: March 5, 2024
India Patent No. 521008
- Inventors: Brian Bowman, Gordon Keener, Steve Krueger
- Title: DISTRIBUTED DATA SET INDEXING
- Issued: March 6, 2024
European Patent No. 3,828,693
- Inventors: Brian Bowman, Gordon Keener, Steve Krueger
- Title: DISTRIBUTED DATA SET INDEXING
- Issued: March 6, 2024
(Also validated in Germany, France, United Kingdom)
US Patent No. 11,928,325
- Inventors: Peng Liu, Mark Bailey, Bradley Jones, Caleb King, Ryan Lekivetz, Joseph Morgan, Jacob Rhyne
- Title: SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR CONFIGURING DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS
- Issued: March 12, 2024
US Patent No. 11,950,933
- Inventors: Carol Sadek, Yuwei Liao, Arin Chaudhuri
- Title: ROBUST HEART-RATE DETECTION TECHNIQUES FOR WEARABLE HEART-RATE SENSORS
- Issued: April 9, 2024
Hong Kong Patent No. HK40041839
- Inventors: Scott Kolodzieski, Vince Deters, Shu Huang, Robert Levey
- Title: ROUTER MANAGEMENT BY AN EVENT STREAM PROCESSING CLUSTER MANAGER
- Issued: April 26, 2024
China Patent No. ZL 2020 1 0824407.1
- Inventors: Brian Bowman, Gordon Keener, Steve Krueger
- Title: AN APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER-PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DISTRIBUTED DATA SET INDEXING
- Issued: May 7, 2024
US Patent No. 11,977,820
- Inventors: Peng Liu, Mark Bailey, Bradley Jones, Caleb King, Ryan Lekivetz, Joseph Morgan, Jacob Rhyne
- Title: SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR CONFIGURING DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS
- Issued: May 7, 2024
US Patent No. 11,983,631
- Inventors: Wenwen Zhou, Joshua Griffin, Riadh Omheni, Alireza Yektamaram, Yan Xu
- Title: CUBIC REGULARIZATION OPTIMIZER
- Issued: May 14, 2024
US Patent No. 11,990,134
- Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Xiaozhuo Cheng, Xu Yang
- Title: METHOD FOR CONFIGURING AND USING A NUMERIC-TO-ALPHABETIC EXPRESSION MACHINE LEARNING MODEL
- Issued: May 21, 2024
German Patent No. 11 2016 001 075*
- Inventors: Brian Bowman, Steve Krueger, Richard Knight, Dright Ho
- Title: DATA I/O DISTRIBUTION FOR A GRID COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
- Issued: May 23, 2024
US Patent No. 12,002,256
- Inventors: Robert Blanchard, Neela Vengateshwaran
- Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING AND USING A MULTI-STAGE OBJECT CLASSIFICATION AND CONDITION PIPELINE
- Issued: June 4, 2024
Taiwan Patent No. I846641
- Inventors: Dev Kakde, Haoyu Wang, Anya McGuirk
- Title: COMPUTER-PROGRAM PRODUCTS TANGIBLY EMBODIED IN A NON-TRANSITORY MACHINE-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS, AND COMPUTING DEVICES
- Issued: June 21, 2024
US Patent No. 12,051,087
- Inventors: Craig Statham, Sauryha Gay
- Title: METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL TRAFFIC CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT
- Issued: July 30, 2024
US Patent No. 12,056,207
- Inventors: Xilong Chen, Tao Huang, Jan Chvosta
- Title: TOPOLOGICAL ORDER DETERMINATION USING MACHINE LEARNING
- Issued: August 6, 2024
Singapore Patent No. 11202308951V
- Inventors: Dev Kakde, Haoyu Wang, Anya McGuirk
- Title: QUALITY PREDICTION USING PROCESS DATA
- Issued: August 27, 2024
US Patent No. 12,086,117
- Inventors: Nicholas Ablitt
- Title: COMBINING USER FEEDBACK WITH AN AUTOMATED ENTITY-RESOLUTION PROCESS EXECUTED ON A COMPUTER SYSTEM
- Issued: September 10, 2024
US Patent No. 12,093,826
- Inventors: Xinmin Wu, Ricky Tharrington, Ralph Abbey, Xin Hunt
- Title: CUTOFF VALUE OPTIMIZATION FOR BIAS MITIGATING MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING SYSTEM WITH MULTI-CLASS TARGET
- Issued: September 17, 2024
US Patent No. 12,099,932
- Inventors: John Gottula
- Title: METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENHANCED SENSOR ASSESSMENTS FOR PREDICTING SECONDARY ENDPOINTS
- Issued: September 24, 2024
US Patent No. 12,111,750
- Inventors: Yongqiao Xiao, Patrick Koch
- Title: SOURCE CODE EVALUATOR AND MODIFIED PARAMETER STRUCTURE FOR ENABLING AUTOMATED VALIDATION OF PARAMETER VALUES IN SOURCE CODE
- Issued: October 8, 2024
US Patent No. 12,111,803
- Inventors: Nicholas Ablitt
- Title: COMBINING USER FEEDBACK WITH AN AUTOMATED ENTITY-RESOLUTION PROCESS EXECUTED ON A COMPUTER SYSTEM
- Issued: October 8, 2024
US Patent No. 12,113,660
- Inventors: Jennifer Hargrove, Ellen Mir, John Maynard, Karen Haralson, Corey Kozak
- Title: GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE AND ALERTING SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND MITIGATING PROBLEMS IN AN AGENT NETWORK
- Issued: October 8, 2024
European Patent No. 4,176,356
- Inventors: Sergiy Peredriy, Keith Holdaway
- Title: MACHINE-LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING TOPS OF GEOLOGICAL LAYERS IN SUBTERRANEAN FORMATIONS
- Issued: October 9, 2024
(Also validated in United Kingdom, Norway and Italy)
Hong Kong Patent No. 40091756
- Inventors: Sergiy Peredriy, Keith Holdaway
- Title: MACHINE-LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING TOPS OF GEOLOGICAL LAYERS IN SUBTERRANEAN FORMATIONS
- Issued: October 9, 2024
Hong Kong Patent No. 40031922
- Inventors: Brian Bowman, Gordon Keener, Steven Krueger
- Title: AN APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER-PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DISTRIBUTED DATA SET INDEXING
- Issued: October 18, 2024
US Patent No. 12,124,518
- Inventors: Fan Wang, Teresa Jade, Xu Yang
- Title: AUTOMATED NEAR-DUPLICATE DETECTION FOR TEXT DOCUMENTS
- Issued: October 22, 2024
US Patent No. 12,135,737
- Inventors: Murali Pagolu, Corey Kozak
- Title: GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE AND PIPELINE FOR TEXT ANALYTICS
- Issued: November 5, 2024
US Patent No. 12,141,138
- Inventors: Yongqiao Xiao, Patrick Nathan Koch
- Title: DATA ACCESS LAYER FOR TRANSLATING BETWEEN A DATA STRUCTURE USED BY A FIRST SOFTWARE
PROGRAM AND A PROXY TABLE USED BY A SECOND SOFTWARE PROGRAM - Issued: November 12, 2024
Australian Patent No. 2023375284
- Inventors: Robert Blanchard, Neela Vengateshwaran
- Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING AND USING A MULTI-STAGE OBJECT CLASSIFICATION AND CONDITION PIPELINE
- Issued: November 14, 2024
US Patent No. 12,147,838
- Inventors: Rich Wellum, Wes Gelpi, Alex Daehnrich
- Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF COMPUTE RESOURCES VIA A MACHINE LEARNING-INFORMED FEEDBACK SEQUENCE
- Issued: November 19, 2024
US Patent No. 12,155,727
- Inventors: David Ghazaleh
- Title: ARCHITECTURE FOR EXECUTION OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS INSIDE DATA SYSTEMS
- Issued: November 26, 2024
US Patent No. 12,164,845
- Inventors: Ryan Lekivetz, Jacob Rhyne, Joseph Morgan
- Title: MIXED-LEVEL SCREENING DESIGN CONSTRUCTION AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES
- Issued: DECEMBER 10, 2024
US Patent No. 12,165,031
- Inventors: Sylvie Tchumtchoua Kabisa, Xilong Chen, Gunce Walton, Bruce Elsheimer, Ming-Chun Chang
- Title: STANDARD ERROR FOR DEEP LEARNING MODEL OUTCOME ESTIMATOR
- Issued: December 10, 2024
US Patent No. 12,165,650
- Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Xiaozhuo Cheng, Xu Yang
- Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED SPEAKER DIARIZATION
- Issued: December 10, 2024
US Patent No. 12,175,166
- Inventors: Ryan Lekivetz, Bradley Jones, Jacob Rhyne, Joseph Morgan
- Title: MIXED-LEVEL SCREENING DESIGN CONSTRUCTION AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES
- Issued: December 24, 2024
US Patent No. 12,175,374
- Inventors: Yingjian Wang, Xinmin Wu
- Title: DISTRIBUTED GAUSSIAN PROCESS CLASSIFICATION COMPUTING SYSTEM
- Issued: December 24, 2024
