US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 2 for "Training masked autoencoders for image inpainting" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,430, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Training masked autoencoders for image inpainting" was invented by Dongdong Chen (Redmond, Wash.), Jianmin Bao (Beijing), Ting Zhang (Beijing), Lu Yuan (Redmond, Wash.), Dong Chen (Redmond, Wash.), Fang Wen (Beijing) and Xiaoyi Dong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein describes training an encoder network to inpaint images with masked portions. A primary encoding process is used to encode a visible portion of a masked input image into encoded token data. The encoded token data is then decoded into both pixel regressio...