US Patent Issued to Intel on June 2 for "Methods and apparatus to perform dense prediction using transformer blocks" (American, German, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,343, issued on June 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to perform dense prediction using transformer blocks" was invented by Rene Ranftl (Munich), Alexey Bochkovskiy (Podolsk, Russia) and Vladlen Koltun (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture disclosed herein perform dense prediction of an input image using transformers at an encoder stage and at a reassembly stage of an image processing system. A disclosed apparatus includes an encoder with an embedder to convert an input image to a plurality of tokens representing features e...