ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,165, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Audio-visual question answering" was invented by Peng Zhang (Los Angeles), Xiulong Liu (Culver City, Calif.) and Zhikang Dong (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes techniques for improving audio-visual question answering. A machine learning model is configured for audio-visual question answering (AVQA). The machine learning model comprises a first sub-model configured to capture semantic audio information and output an audio spatial feature map xas(1). The machine learning model comprises a second sub-mod...