US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 10 for "Visual search and discovery via generative model inversion" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,900, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Visual search and discovery via generative model inversion" was invented by Oren Barkan (Tel Aviv, Israel), Nir Zabari (Jerusalem), Tal Reiss (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Noam Koenigstein (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Nir Nice (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions for visual search and discovery include performing unsupervised training of a generative adversarial network that has a generator and an assessor. Training the generative adversarial network involves alternating training the assessor with the generator and a plurality of catal...