US Patent Issued to Microsft Technology Licensing on July 14 for "Unified natural language model with segmented and aggregate attention" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,187, issued on July 14, was assigned to Microsft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Unified natural language model with segmented and aggregate attention" was invented by Pengcheng He (Sammamish, Wash.), Jianfeng Gao (Woodinville, Wash.), Nanshan Zeng (Bellevue, Wash.), Xuedong Huang (Yarrow Point, Wash.), Wei Xiong (Bellevue, Wash.) and Baolin Peng (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for training and using a novel unified language foundation model. An encoder-decoder natural language model is obtained and various training data is obtained and used for training. The training proce...