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AdaPipe: Adaptive Pipelines for Smart Manufacturing
THE CHALLENGE
In modern industrial cyber-physical systems, the challenge lies in efficiently selecting the right data-processing pipelines to handle ever-changing manufacturing conditions, diverse datasets, and time-sensitive demands. As manufacturers increasingly rely on real-time analytics for monitoring, prediction, and control, the sheer number...
Published: 7/9/2025
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Inventor(s): Ran Jin, Chen Xiaoyu
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Software
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Manufacturing Search Engine
THE CHALLENGE
Manufacturing companies stand to gain enormous value by sharing their rich design and process data to unlock better product innovation and process optimization, but major roadblocks persist. Businesses are hesitant to collaborate due to fears of exposing proprietary technologies, trade secrets, or sensitive operational data. While technical...
Published: 7/9/2025
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Inventor(s): Ismini Lourentzou, Ran Jin
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Software
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World of AI: Exploring Methods via Latent Neural Mapping
THE CHALLENGE
Selecting the right machine learning pipeline for a new dataset is a major bottleneck for businesses seeking to deploy AI solutions quickly and cost-effectively. With countless combinations of preprocessing steps, feature transformations, and algorithms, teams often rely on trial-and-error or expensive AutoML tools that demand significant...
Published: 7/3/2025
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Inventor(s): Ran Jin, Parshin Shajoee, Xiaoyu Chen
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Software
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Reinforcement Learning with Optimization-Based Policy
THE CHALLENGE
Complex systems—such as energy grids, supply chains, and transportation networks—require intelligent decision-making to coordinate interconnected operations and adapt in real time to uncertainty and change. Traditional optimization tools are fast and reliable but often rigid, relying on fixed models that don’t cope...
Published: 7/3/2025
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Inventor(s): Ming Jin
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Software, Technology Classifications > Computer Science
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Method for the Image Processing, Grading and Assessment of Coins
THE CHALLENGE
The major challenge in coin grading lies in the industry’s heavy reliance on expert human inspection, which is slow, costly, and inconsistent—posing a bottleneck in a fast-growing market driven by online trading and auctions. Despite early attempts at automation using image analysis techniques like template matching, color-space...
Published: 7/3/2025
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Inventor(s): Luke Lester, Creed Jones, jianzhu chen, Michael Trail, Madalyn Killian, Mohammed Humadi, Christopher Fritsch
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Software, Technology Classifications > Computer Science
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Calculator to Quantify Cover Crop Effects on Soil Health and Productivity
THE CHALLENGE
The main challenge facing the adoption and optimization of cover crops lies in the lack of accessible, data-driven tools that can translate complex soil health research into practical, region-specific recommendations for farmers and agribusinesses. While cover crops are known to improve key soil functions—like structure, nutrient...
Published: 7/3/2025
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Inventor(s): Ryan Stewart, Jinshi Jian, Brandon Lester
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Software, Technology Classifications > Agriculture
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Semi-Automated Labeling for Machine Learning
THE CHALLENGE
In AI-driven technologies—such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, and surveillance systems—the costly and time-consuming process of labeling visual data used to train machine learning models has always been a problem. Traditional manual annotation methods require significant human effort, leading to high operational costs and...
Published: 6/25/2025
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Inventor(s): Emerson Dove, Daniel Doyal, Jonathan Black
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computer Science, Technology Classifications > Software
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LORI: Local Low-Rank Imputation for Context-Aware AI
THE CHALLENGE
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) for data-driven decision-making faces a major challenge in automatically configuring and optimizing complex AI pipelines across different use cases. As organizations deal with diverse datasets and fast-changing requirements, selecting the right combination of processing steps becomes increasingly...
Published: 6/25/2025
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Inventor(s): Ran Jin, Chen Xiaoyu
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Software
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Attention-on-Attention for Human-Guided AI
THE CHALLENGE
A major challenge facing industries like advanced manufacturing and quality inspection is the gap between human expertise in visual search and the limited capabilities of current AI systems. While skilled inspectors can dynamically scan, interpret, and integrate subtle visual cues over time, most existing automated solutions rely on static...
Published: 6/25/2025
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Inventor(s): Ran Jin, Chen Xiaoyu
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Communication, Technology Classifications > Software
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Privacy-prEserving Data-sharing framework (PriED)
THE CHALLENGE
Industrial Internet provides a communication and computation platform, allowing the collection of large-scale data for machine learning tasks. Despite the promise of training and deployment acceleration and potential optimization via sharing data sets, the adoption of such technologies is impacted by the increasing concerns of information...
Published: 6/26/2025
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Inventor(s): Ismini Lourentzou, Ran Jin
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Communication, Technology Classifications > Software
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