ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,225, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Utilizing hidden state sharing modules to prevent catastrophic forgetting" was invented by Qinghan Xue (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiaolong Wang (Campbell, Calif.) and Steven Nicholas Eliuk (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for processing data. Data, including single data points (e.g., images) or entire sequences of data (e.g., speech, video), is received to be processed. A long short term memory structure is utilized to process the received data, where the long shor...