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USPTO Director of Emerging Technology and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Jerry Ma has been awarded the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal® for excellence in public service. 

Ma’s honor recognizes his leadership and dedication in advancing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the patent examination process. He and his team have also helped shape USPTO policies to address AI’s evolving role in intellectual property and innovation. 

One of the AI tools he helped develop is an AI-powered search that processes thousands of searches per day. Since one patent application review may require scouring through hundreds if not thousands of documents, in many languages and across multiple systems, this improved the complex patent examination process for more than 9,000 examiners. Read the press release: https://bit.ly/3XjP5UH