US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on June 30 for "Systems and methods for PatchSwap-a regularization technique for vision transformers" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,699, issued on June 30, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for PatchSwap-a regularization technique for vision transformers" was invented by Baoxin Li (Chandler, Ariz.) and Sachin Chhabra (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of a computer-implemented regularization technique are described and tailor-made for Vision Transformers. Examples can combine two or more input images and swap patches between them to produce a PatchSwap image. The PatchSwap image is then used to train a Vision Transformer to predict the mixing ratio as well as the ...