ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,594, issued on April 21, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Machine-learned attention models featuring omnidirectional processing" was invented by Yi Tay (Singapore), Da-Cheng Juan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dara Bahri (Lafayette, Calif.), Donald Arthur Metzler Jr. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jai Prakash Gupta (Fremont, Calif.), Mostafa Dehghani (Amsterdam), Phillip Pham (Seattle), Vamsi Krishna Aribandi (San Francisco) and Zhen Qin (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are machine-learned attention models that feature omnidirectional processing, example implementations of which can be referred to as Om...