ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,418, issued on April 21, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Training image and text embedding models" was invented by Zhen Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yi-Ting Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Yaxi Gao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Da-Cheng Juan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aleksei Timofeev (Mountain View, Calif.), Chun-Ta Lu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Futang Peng (San Jose, Calif.), Sujith Ravi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew Tomkins (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Thomas J. Duerig (Mountain View, Calif.).

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 training an image emb...