{"id":12302,"date":"2019-06-28T07:48:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T02:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=12302"},"modified":"2019-06-28T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T02:33:16","slug":"a-focus-on-inventing-multiplies-engineers-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/a-focus-on-inventing-multiplies-engineers-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"A Focus on Inventing Multiplies Engineer\u2019s Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Intel Innovator:<\/strong>\u00a0Rita Wouhaybi, principal engineer in Intel\u2019s Internet of Things Group<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How she\u2019d describe her job to a 10-year-old :<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cI am working on making factories smarter. \u2026 [We] are working on adding computer smartness to all factories no matter where they are. Can a computer watch a human and guide them while sewing a shirt? Or can a computer predict that a robot is going to make a mistake on a car chassis which might make it less safe and correct it in time?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Improving factories, maps and Netflix queues :<\/strong>\u00a0In her role as a principal engineer in the Internet of Things Group, Rita Wouhaybi helps make factories more efficient. One example: She merges machine learning and factory automation technologies to ensure a German automaker produces spot welds that are good and safe \u2013 an especially important chore since every car has more than 12,000 of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Patents across technologies : <\/strong>Wouhaybi\u2019s patents and the underlying inventions they protect cover a wide range of technologies: from networking, to context-aware and mobile systems, to machine learning and health systems. Smart navigation systems work in part thanks to Wouhaybi: The map app that likely guides you across a city draws some of its routing smarts from her patent filings. And when Netflix suggests movies you may want to watch based on your previous viewing, Wouhaybi\u2019s inventions help under the hood.<\/span><\/p>\n

Filling the patent pipeline :<\/strong>\u00a0With 82 U.S. patents issued and 171 more patents filed, Wouhaybi is one of Intel\u2019s single most prolific female inventors. In February, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ranked Intel among the top-five U.S. companies for women inventors. So, what\u2019s her next patent? \u201cI always have a few in the pipeline,\u201d she says grinning, but offering no specifics.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018I can invent things!\u2019 :<\/strong> Wouhaybi still recalls the day when, at age 17 in her native Lebanon, she visited a math professor for some career counseling. She told him of her dreams to become a civil engineer \u2014 so she could build things like roads and bridges. The professor showed her a photo of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Built in 2500 BC, it remained Earth\u2019s tallest man-made structure for 3,800 years. She says he asked: \u201cCan you beat that?\u201d And then recommended she become a computer engineer, telling her: \u201cYou can become an inventor.\u201d Wouhaybi says she still remembers walking out of that professor\u2019s office and thinking just one thing: \u201cI can invent things!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo Caption :<\/strong> Rita Wouhaybi, principal engineer in Intel\u2019s Internet of Things Group, has 82 U.S. patents issued and 171 more patents filed. Her work helps in factories, in mapping technology and in your movie queue. (Credit: Walden Kirsch\/Intel Corporation)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Intel Innovator:\u00a0Rita Wouhaybi, principal engineer in Intel\u2019s Internet of Things Group How she\u2019d describe her job to a 10-year-old :\u00a0\u201cI am working on making factories smarter. \u2026 [We] are working on adding computer smartness to all factories no matter where they are. Can a computer watch a human and guide them while sewing a shirt? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6674,5514,6675],"class_list":{"0":"post-12302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology","7":"tag-a-focus-on-inventing-multiplies-engineers-patents","8":"tag-intel-innovators","9":"tag-rita-wouhaybi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}