ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,888, issued on June 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Synthetic multi-modal data generation from uni-modal datasets" was invented by Ella Barkan (Haifa, Israel), Simona Rabinovici-Cohen (Haifa, Israel) and Michal Flato (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may receive one or more datasets. The one or more datasets may include tabular data and imaging data. The processor may generate image embeddings for each of the one or more datasets. Each of the one or more datasets may include respective labels for each of the tabular data and imaging data of the one or more datasets...