ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,549, issued on May 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Deep self-attention matrix model refinement" was invented by Oren Barkan (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Edan Hauon (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Ori Katz (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Avi Caciularu (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Itzik Malkiel (Givaatayim, Israel), Omri Armstrong (Raanana, Israel), Amir Hertz (Tel Aviv, Israel), Noam Koenigstein (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Nir Nice (Salit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system scores importance of a number of tokens in an input token sequence to one or more prediction scores computed by a neural network model on the ...