ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,556, issued on May 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Object-centric learning with slot attention" was invented by Dirk Weissenborn (Berlin), Jakob Uszkoreit (Berlin), Thomas Unterthiner (Berlin), Aravindh Mahendran (Berlin), Francesco Locatello (Hoofddorp, Netherlands), Thomas Kipf (Amsterdam), Georg Heigold (Aachen, Germany) and Alexey Dosovitskiy (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method involves receiving a perceptual representation including a plurality of feature vectors, and initializing a plurality of slot vectors represented by a neural network memory unit. Each respective slot vector is configured...