ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,985, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating multimodal data using a media item generation neural network and a token generation neural network" was invented by Fabian Julius Mentzer (Zurich), Kaushik Shivakumar (Cupertino, Calif.), Robert Junior Riachi (Mountain View, Calif.), Abhishek Sinha (Mountain View, Calif.), Xiaoyue Guo (New York) and Mostafa Dehghani (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of generating multimodal data. The method comprises using a token generation neural network to generate, autoregressively, an output sequence of multimodal to...