This inventor holds 1 USPTO granted patent and 1 published patent application. Top assignee: International Business Machines Corporation. Active years: 2026.
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Years Active: 2026
Title: Penny Chong and Multi-Resolution Audio Defect Detection in Welding.
Introduction
Penny Chong is an inventor associated with Singapore and International Business Machines Corporation. Her patent work applies machine learning to the detection of defects in welding audio.
Latest Patents
Chong is associated with 1 patent, titled “Multi-resolution audio defect detection in welding.” The invention describes receiving and formatting labeled and unlabeled audio data, training a foundation model on unlabeled data using a self-supervised reconstruction loss, and then training it on labeled data using a classification loss. The trained model is used to detect welding defects across multiple audio resolutions.
Career Highlights
Chong’s listed patent reflects work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, audio analysis, and industrial quality control. The disclosed approach uses both labeled and unlabeled data to train a foundation model for welding defect detection.
Collaborations
Chong is associated with International Business Machines Corporation. Her listed coworker is Laura Wynter.
Conclusion
Penny Chong’s patent describes a foundation-model approach to identifying welding defects from audio, combining self-supervised and classification-based training.
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