ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,279, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Processing images using self-attention based neural networks" was invented by Neil Matthew Tinmouth Houlsby (Zurich), Sylvain Gelly (Aix-en-Provence, France), Jakob D. Uszkoreit (Berlin), Xiaohua Zhai (Zurich), Georg Heigold (Aachen, Germany), Lucas Klaus Beyer (Zurich), Alexander Kolesnikov (Zurich), Matthias Johannes Lorenz Minderer (Zurich), Dirk Weissenborn (Berlin), Mostafa Dehghani (Amsterdam), Alexey Dosovitskiy (Berlin) and Thomas Unterthiner (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on ...