ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,647, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BAYER AG (Germany).

"Method and apparatus for processing of multi-modal data" was invented by Steffen Vogler (Berlin), Johannes Hoehne (Oranienburg, Germany) and Matthias Lenga (Leverkusen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a machine learning model that is able to establish links between data of different modalities by creating a joint representation. In particular, application of the method to medical data including electronic medical records and medical images and/or other medical data. The trained machine learning model can among others fulfil tasks such as autocom...