ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,290, issued on June 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Polynomial self-attention" was invented by Francesca Babiloni (London), Ioannis Marras (London), Jiankang Deng (London) and Stefanos Zafeiriou (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A classification apparatus for allocating a raw image to a respective class out of a plurality of classes, the apparatus comprising one or more processors and a memory storing in non-transient form data defining program code executable by the one or more processors to implement an image classification model, the apparatus being configured to: receive a raw image; genera...