US Patent Issued to GDM Holding on Sept. 15 for "Generating differentiable order statistics using sorting networks" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,431, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating differentiable order statistics using sorting networks" was invented by Ali Taylan Cemgil (London), Krishnamurthy Dvijotham (London), Arnaud Doucet (Oxford, Great Britain) and Jamie Hayes (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating one or more differentiable order statistics for a vector of scores. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining the vector of scores, wherein each position in the vector of scores is as...