US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 6 for "Local self-attention computer vision neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,520, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Local self-attention computer vision neural networks" was invented by Ashish Teku Vaswani (San Francisco), Prajit Ramachandran (Santa Clara, Calif.), Aravind Srinivas Lakshminarayanan (Berkeley, Calif.), Blake Alan Hechtman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Niki J. Parmar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using a computer vision neural network that has one or more local self-attention layers. Each local self-attention layer is configu...