ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,227, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multimodal few-shot learning with frozen language models" was invented by Maria Rafailia Tsimpoukelli (London), Jacob Lee Menick (London), Serkan Cabi (London), Felix George Hill (London), Seyed Mohammadali Eslami (London) and Oriol Vinyals (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing multi-modal inputs using language models. In particular, the inputs include an image, and the image is encoded by an image encoder neural network to generate a sequence o...