{"id":15314,"date":"2026-04-24T10:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/15314\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:47:10","slug":"cognizants-ai-lab-gains-3-new-u-s-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/15314\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant\u2019s AI Lab gains 3 new U.S. patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"featured-image-info\" style=\"font-size: 11px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important; color: #212529; margin: 5px 0;\">The wall of patents at Cognizant&#8217;s AI Lab. &#8211; courtesy Cognizant<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cognizant.com\/us\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cognizant<\/a> in Teaneck announced that its AI Lab has received three new U.S. patents, bringing its total number of U.S. patents to 65 and 88 globally.<\/p>\n<p>The newly granted patents build on the lab\u2019s work in areas such as human-AI collaboration for decision-making and deep learning for specialized tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Together, they reflect continued innovation in the core building blocks of AI systems \u2014 helping models learn more effectively, collaborate more seamlessly and support better decisions in real-world environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs enterprises scale AI, they need systems that are not only powerful but also adaptable, collaborative and efficient,\u201d said Babak Hodjat, chief AI officer at Cognizant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese patents represent advances in how AI systems learn and evolve, helping organizations move from experimentation to real business impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest patents include:<\/p>\n<p>S. Patent No. 12,572,810: Improves decision-recommendation systems, or \u201cprescriptors,\u201d by evolving human-designed strategies into stronger, higher-performing policies as conditions change<br \/>\nS. Patent No. 12,566,942: Automatically creates and tunes activation functions \u2014 core \u201con\/off\u201d switches inside neural networks \u2014 so models can perform better for a given task and architecture, reducing manual trial and error<br \/>\nS. Patent No. 12,561,223: Enhances distributed machine learning by enabling systems to share and combine learned knowledge through standardized metadata, improving coordination and reuse across teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese patents reflect our focus on the building blocks of AI,\u201d said Risto Miikkulainen, vice president of AI Research at Cognizant and professor of computer science at UT Austin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are making models more adaptive, decisions more effective and distributed systems more collaborative. This work moves AI toward more flexible and scalable real-world applications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The innovations were developed by Cognizant researchers, including Dr. Elliot Meyerson, Professor Risto Miikkulainen, Olivier Francon, Dr. Babak Hodjat, Darren Sargent and former Cognizant researchers Karl Mutch and Dr. Garrett Bingham.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows shortly after Cognizant was chosen by OpenAI to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roi-nj.com\/2026\/04\/23\/tech\/cognizant-picked-by-openai-to-scale-impact-of-codex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">scale the impact of Codex<\/a> across enterprise clients worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wall of patents at Cognizant&#8217;s AI Lab. &#8211; courtesy Cognizant Cognizant in Teaneck announced that its AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,11498,2317,8750,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-15314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-babak-hodjat","11":"tag-codex","12":"tag-cognizant","13":"tag-openai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}