ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,559, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Training neural network components" was invented by I-Fan Chen (Sammamish, Wash.), Satya Venkata Phani Sankar Nidadavolu (Redmond, Wash.), Brian King (Bellingham, Wash.), Pegah Ghahremani (Seattle) and Pin-Jui Ku (Brookhaven, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning model may be configured for training using an associated learning technique. A model configured for end-to-end backpropagation may adapted for associated learning by introducing functions for projecting hidden vectors and labels to a shared representation space and for reconstructing...