ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,916, issued on April 21, was assigned to LEMON INC. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Data augmentation based on attention" was invented by Song Bai (Singapore, China), Jieneng Chen (Beijing), Shuyang Sun (Beijing), Ju He (Beijing) and Bin Lu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, and computer program products for data augmentation. In the method, mixed data is generated from first data and second data, and the mixed data comprises a first portion from the first data and a second portion from the second data. An attention map is obtained for the mixed data bas...