ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,607, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Leidos Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"System and method for generating synthetic data with masked transformers" was invented by Paul F. Roysdon (Boeme, Texas) and Manbir S. Gulati (Frederick, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transformer-based modeling architecture for training a generator to generate synthetic data. The architecture includes embedding models for embedding input data having multiple fields containing real data values and constructing individual embedding matrices for each of the multiple fields, a masking model for producing a set of masked fields in the embedded input dataset and r...