US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 17 for "Transformer-based text encoder for passage retrieval" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,930, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Transformer-based text encoder for passage retrieval" was invented by Hao Cheng (Kirkland, Wash.), Hao Fang (Seattle), Xiaodong Liu (Redmond, Wash.) and Jianfeng Gao (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes a logic subsystem and a storage subsystem holding instructions executable by the logic subsystem to implement a transformer-based text encoder. The transformer-based text encoder includes a plurality of transformer blocks previously-trained to apply encoding operations to computer-readable text repres...