ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,376, issued on March 17, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Label propagation using contrastive learning projections" was invented by Xirui Hou (McLean, Va.), Zhuqing Zhang (McLean, Va.) and Gang Mei (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments can include methods and related systems to project coarse representations of natural language interactions into fine-grained representations using contrastive learning projections. Some embodiments can maximize a first set of distances between dissimilar points and anchor points in the fine-grained representations, and minimize a second set of dist...