ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,962, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Training autoencoders for generating latent representations" was invented by Jianlan Luo (Mountain View, Calif.) and Stefan Schaal (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an autoencoder. One of the methods includes receiving a pair of images, wherein a first image of the pair represents a first state of a working environment at a first time step earlier than that of a second image of the pair. A first and a second latent repr...