ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,901, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multilingual semantic search utilizing meta-distillation learning" was invented by Meryem M'Hamdi (Los Angeles), Seunghyun Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Franck Dernoncourt (Seattle) and Trung Bui (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for providing multilingual semantic search results utilizing meta-learning and knowledge distillation. For example, in some implementations, the disclosed systems perform a first inner learning loop for a monolingual to bilingual me...