ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,790, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Model training method, image retrieval method, and apparatus" was invented by Weimian Li (Shenzhen, China), Kaiqiang Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Fei Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Songcen Xu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model training method relates to the artificial intelligence field. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of training samples, where each training sample includes an image and a text, and the text describes a target object in the image; and inputting the plurality of training samples into a target model, so th...