ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,309, issued on June 2, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Neural network architectures with multiple normalization layers for machine vision" was invented by Manoj Kumar Sivaraj (Amsterdam), Neil Matthew Tinmouth Houlsby (Zurich, Switzerland) and Mostafa Dehghani (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a neural network for machine vision. The neural network may include a stem block that includes a set of stem layers. The neural network may additionally include a visual transformer block. The set of stem layers may include a patch layer, a first normalizati...