ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,970, issued on June 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Scalable foundation models for processing structured data" was invented by Xin Yang Yak (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Sercan Omer Arik (San Francisco), Yihe Dong (Princeton, N.J.) and Javier Gonzalvo Fructuoso (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing a neural network that can perform one or more machine learning tasks on an input that includes data that represents a given data structure. In particular, implementing a language model to encode the data and a fo...