ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,901, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Method and apparatus for prompting-based rehearsal-free continual learning with dynamic prototypes-involved self-attention" was invented by Ming Zhang (Pak Shek Kok, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for prompting-based rehearsal-free continual learning with dynamic prototypes-involved self-attention. A machine learning model with a base training set accepts continual new data inputs and use them to compute a prototype self-attention block which updates the model for the t...