2025-SNPNaphtali Rishe and Malek Adjouadi. U.S. Patent 12306002B2. “Systems and Methods for Navigating Based on Scenic Quality”. Application 17840032. Filed: June 14, 2022. Patent issued on: May 20, 2025. FIU-IP-2022-009. Summary: A system and method for navigation that integrates scenic quality into route optimization by weighting street segments based on visual appeal to provide more scenic paths.
2024-STPNaphtali Rishe. U.S. Patent US12158525B2. “Systems and Methods for Terrain Mapping Using Lidar”. Application 17358795. Filed: June 25, 2021. Patent issued on: December 3, 2024. FIU-IP-2021-007. Summary: High-resolution LIDAR elevation measurements in urban are typically available at the ground level only between buildings, while measurements over buildings are at the tops of structures. LIDAR measurements that hit rooftops are not indicative of the true elevation at the ground level. This method interpolates the ground-level elevation at any point from the LIDAR elevation at the nearby unbuilt road intersections.
2024-AAPMohammadhadi Amini, Naphtali D. Rishe, Khandaker Mamun Ahmed. U.S. Patent No. US11875566B1. “Anomalous Activity Recognition in Videos.” Application No. 18484039. Filed: October 10, 2023. Patent issued on: January 16, 2024. FIU-IP-2023-053. Summary: Terrorism and other suspicious activities can be recognized in real-time utilizing histogram-based noise cleansing, deep convolutional neural network-based feature extraction, instance segmentation, instance summation, difference calculation, and normalization. A human-in-loop system facilitates human decisions for anomaly detection.
2022-SAPDeya Banisakher, Naphtali Rishe, Mark Finlayson. U.S. Patent US11537888B2. “Systems and Methods for Predicting Pain Level”. Application 16875041 filed: May 15, 2020. Patent issued on: December 27, 2022. FIU-IP-2019-007. Summary: Learning and predicting the self-reported pain improvement levels of osteoarthritis.
2022-DDPDeya Banisakher, Naphtali Rishe, Mark Finlayson. U.S. Patent US11494418B2. “Systems and Methods for Determining Document Section Types”. Application 17160712 filed: January 28, 2021. Patent issued on: November 8, 2022. FIU-IP-2020-019. Summary: Automatic partitioning of a document into section types using the Bayesian model and Analogical Story Merging algorithms. The system learns the section structure of documents without a pre-existing ontology of sections or manual annotation.
2021-TDPFrancisco Ortega, Jules Calella, Naphtali Rishe, S.S. Iyengar. “Three Dimensional Touch Conductive Fabric”. U.S. Patent US10908745B2. Patent issued on: February 2, 2021. Patent Application 16015801 filed: June 22, 2018. FIU-IP-1744. Summary: Flexible insulated conductive fabric as a wearable device and multi-dimensional motion sensor.
2021-SMPDeya Banisakher, Naphtali Rishe, Mark Finlayson. U.S. Patent US10949622B2. “Systems and Methods for Segmenting Documents”. Application 16667991. Filed: October 30, 2019. Patent issued on: March 16, 2021. FIU-IP-1884. Summary: Automatic modeling of the discourse structure of psychiatric reports and segmenting these reports into sections by learning the section types, positions, and sequence.
2020-WDPFrancisco Ortega, Naphtali Rishe, Armando Barreto. U.S. Patent US10806375B2. “Wearable Device and Methods of Using the Same.” Application 15585395 filed: May 3, 2017. Patent issued on: October 20, 2020. FIU-IP-1612. Subject: Wearable hybrid sensors. Summary: Devices worn on a finger or wrist capture and correlate ambient conditions and the movement and bio-signals of the user.
2020-UEPOliver Ullrich, Naphtali Rishe, and Victor Potapenko. U.S. Patent US10831332B2. “User Interface Element for Building Interior Previewing and Navigation.” Application 15440524. Filed: February 23, 2017. Patent issued on: November 10, 2020. FIU-IP-1654. Summary: Communicating, displaying, and storing information on buildings, malls, cruise ships, museums, and construction sites; an interface to manipulate and define structural elements, to query data about and navigate within structures.
2019-WQPMingjin Zhang, Naphtali Rishe, Jahkell Lazarre, Tao Li. U.S. Patent US10210272B1 “Window Query Monitoring for Mobile Devices and Central Database Servers With a Tree-like Index.” Patent issued on: February 19, 2019. Patent Application 15822667 filed on November 27, 2017. Summary: Identifying points of interest within a query window and within a safe region around it. FIU-IP-1724.
2019-VEPMingjin Zhang, Naphtali Rishe, Weitong Liu, Jahkell Lazarre, Tao Li. “Voronoi Diagram-based Algorithm for Efficient Progressive Continuous Range Query for Moving Objects.” U.S. Patent US10412544B1. Patent issued on: September 10, 2019. Patent Application 16266479 filed on February 4, 2019. Summary: Efficiently and progressively computing a continuous range query (CRQ) to retrieve moving objects' data within a given region around the user moving along a path, with predictive and continuous production of query results without the need to repost the query as the reference point is moving. FIU-IP-1739.
2019-VDPMingjin Zhang, Naphtali Rishe, Weitong Liu, Jahkell Lazarre, Tao Li. U.S. Patent US10200814B1 “Voronoi Diagram-Based Algorithm for Efficient Progressive Continuous K-Nearest Neighbor Query for Moving Objects”. Application 15960797. Filed: April 24, 2018. Patent issued on: February 5, 2019. Summary: Computing k-nearest neighbors for queries by location-based services, detecting points of interest within a predetermined distance of the user device using a kNN algorithm, organizing the points of interest in a Voronoi tree, and continuously recomputing position-specific results. FIU-IP-1711.
2019-VBPMingjin Zhang, Naphtali Rishe, Jahkell Lazarre, Tao Li. “Voronoi-based Efficient Algorithm for Range Query Monitoring for Mobile Devices and Central Database Servers.” U.S. Patent US10346477B1. Patent issued on: July 9, 2019. USPTO Patent Application 15945255 filed April 4, 2018. Summary: Computing a mobile range query by building two min-heaps that contain in-border and out-border intersect points and constructing a safe region. FIU-IP-1729.
2019-GSPNaphtali Rishe. U.S. Patent US10191945B2 “Geolocating Social Media.” Application 14184399. Filed: February 19, 2014. Patent issued on: January 29, 2019. Summary: Techniques for geolocating social media; in particular, a textual non-geolocated social media message is probabilistically localized by comparing to contemporaneous geospatial clusters of messages in a knowledge database. FIU-IP-1219.
2019-EPPMingjin Zhang, Naphtali Rishe, Weitong Liu, Jahkell Lazarre, Tao Li. U.S. Patent US10331753B1 “Efficient Progressive Continuous k-Nearest Neighbor Query Algorithm for Moving Objects with a Tree-like Index.” Patent issued on: June 25, 2019. Patent application 15945222 filed April 4, 2018. Summary: Computing continuous k-nearest neighbor (kNN) queries related to moving objects for location-based services; producing ordered kNN query results in a continuous and progressive manner. FIU-IP-1713.
2018-VVPArmando Barreto, Naphtali Rishe, Francisco Ortega, Nonnarit O-larnnithipong. U.S. Patent US9900555B1 “VRT: Virtual Round Table.” Application 15634560. Filed: Jun 27, 2017. Patent issued on: February 20, 2018. FIU-IP-1708. Summary: A system of cameras, microphones, speakers, and sensors that makes a teleconference feel like sitting around a table.
2018-UIPOliver Ullrich, Naphtali Rishe, Daniel Luckerath. U.S. Patent US10061501B2 “User Interface for Co-Optimizing Weight Factors”. Application 14877379. Filed: October 7, 2015. Patent issued on: August 28, 2018. FIU-IP-1523. Summary: A touchable triangle allows the user to assign importance weights to three interrelated decision optimization objectives using a single gesture.
2018-RCPOliver Ullrich and Naphtali Rishe. U.S. Patent US9964948B2 “Remote Control and Concierge Service for an Autonomous Transit Vehicle Fleet.” Application 15429261. Filed: February 10, 2017. Patent issued on: May 8, 2018. Exclusively licensed to: Guident Ltd. FIU-IP-1626. Summary: A VR/AR remote control center for an autonomous vehicle fleet to handle emergencies and interact with the passengers and with drivers and pedestrians outside the vehicle.
2018-PCPMingjin Zhang, Naphtali Rishe, Weitong Liu, Tao Li. U.S. Patent US10095724B1 “Progressive Continuous Range Query for Moving Objects with a Tree-Like Index”. Application 15672884. Filed: August 9, 2017. Patent issued on: October 9, 2018. Summary: Computing a progressive continuous range query, using branch-and-bound to index points of interest with a tree-index, generating nearest enter split-points for nodes in the tree-index. FIU-IP-1706.
2018-GDPFrancisco Ortega, Naphtali Rishe, Armando Barreto. U.S. Patent US9886190B2 “Gesture Discernment and Processing System.” Application 14555854. Filed: November 28, 2014. Patent issued on: February 6, 2018. FIU-IP-1429. Summary: A gesture interpreter using Petri Nets.
2018-ERPOliver Ullrich and Naphtali Rishe. U.S. Patent US9892639B2 “Emissions Reduction in Vehicle Parking.” Application 14660283. Filed: March 17, 2015. Patent issued on: February 13, 2018. Summary: In a garage with entrance/exit cameras, probabilistically derive from event history a recommendation to drive directly to the most desirable among the likely available parking zones rather than cruising through most desirable but unlikely available zones. FIU-IP-1432.
2017-SRPNaphtali Rishe. U.S. Patent US9734161B2 “Streaming Representation of Moving Objects and Shapes in a Geographic Information Service.” Application 14215484. Filed March 17, 2014. Patent issued on: August 15, 2017. Summary: GIS functionality for querying, analysis, and visualization of real-time streaming data pertaining to moving objects (e.g., vehicles, people, sensors, weather phenomena) in conjunction with relatively static multi-temporal geospatial data. FIU-IP-1301.
2017-FCPOliver Ullrich and Naphtali Rishe. U.S. Patent US9601101B1 “Frequency Calibration for Audio Synthesizers.” Application 14847627 filed September 8, 2015. Patent issued on: March 21, 2017. Summary: Calibration of oscillation frequencies for an analog audio synthesizer, including continuously compensating for the frequency irregularities that originate from insufficient calibration and/or frequency drift of the oscillator circuits. FIU-IP-1507.
2017-DRPOliver Ullrich, Naphtali Rishe, Daniel Lueckerath. U.S. Patent US9786173B2 “Dynamic Routing of Transit Vehicles.” Application 14829021 filed August 18, 2015. Patent issued on: October 10, 2017. Summary: Dynamic selection of a transit route through the stop zones of a transit line by choosing an optimized combination of stop options and route segment options for the transit vehicle. FIU-IP-1436.
2017-AEPOliver Ullrich and Naphtali Rishe. U.S. Patent US9786175B1 “Availability Estimation Method for Parking Lots Based on Incomplete Data.” Application 15252383 filed August 31, 2016. Patent issued on: October 10, 2017. Summary: Monitoring parking areas and recommending a parking spot or a parking area to a driver, using incomplete camera or sensor coverage and minimal overhead. FIU-IP-1625.
2014-CSPThomas F. Gustafson, Naphtali Rishe, Ramon Trias, Kenneth Stapleton. U.S. Patent US8915669B1 “Cross Street Transit and Multimodal Multi-Level Station and Pedestrian-Oriented Interchange.” Patent issued on: December 23, 2014. Application 13907085 filed May 31, 2013. FIU-IP-1215. Summary: A two-level transit station with a vertically moving bus platform.
2004-DQPNaphtali Rishe. U.S. Patent US6795825B2 “Database Querying System and Method” Application 09729630 filed December 1, 2000. Patent issued on: September 21, 2004. Subject: SQL for Semantic Databases. Summary: Interpretation of the standard relational SQL language in application to semantic and object-relational databases.
2002-DEPNaphtali Rishe. U.S. Patent US6339773 B1 “Data Extractor.” Application 09415998 filed October 12, 1999. Patent issued on: January 15, 2002. Summary: Scraping of Web pages: extracting, de-formatting, and re-formatting data strippable from HTML pages, both public and restricted-use pages, using deployed agents acting on behalf of and with the authority of the user.
1999-TMPEvgeny Vaschillo and Naphtali Rishe. U.S. Patent US5997482 “Therapeutic Method for a Human Subject” Application 09088155 filed June 1, 1998. Patent issued on December 7, 1999. Subject: HRV Biofeedback. Summary: Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Biofeedback: Spectrally analyzing the heartbeat and respiratory rates to determine a phase shift, causing the user to modify the respiratory rate by minimizing the phase shift, selecting a frequency of the displayed reference signal which correlates with the modified respiratory signal, and establishing an optimum reference signal displayed as a resonance frequency unique for the user upon approaching the zero phase shift between the heart signal and the modified respiratory signal.
1999-EOPNaphtali Rishe and Artyom Shaposhnikov. U.S. Patent US5920857A “Efficient Optimistic Concurrency Control and Lazy Queries for B-Trees and Other Database Structures”. Application 08905679 filed August 4, 1997. Patent issued on: July 6, 1999. Summary: Fine granularity concurrency control at the level of B-tree records for B-trees, B-trees with variable keys, and their applications, such as semantic and object-oriented databases.