ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,800, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Multi-modal automated evaluation for improved accessibility" was invented by Iam Palatnik de Sousa (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Shary Beshara (Cairo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes a machine-learning (ML) model receiving a first input that includes images that have been extracted from a web page and a second input that includes alt-texts that have been extracted from the web page. The alt-texts describe the images. The ML model converts the images into a first embedding representation and converts the alt-texts into a second em...