ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,800, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Low-resource, multi-lingual transformer models" was invented by Li Miao (San Francisco), Jian Wu (Bellevue, Wash.), Shuangyu Chang (Davis, Calif.), Piyush Behre (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Sarangarajan Parthasarathy (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for multi-lingual model generation. A method can include determining, for low-resource languages, respective a language similarity value indicating language similarity between each of the low-resource languages, clustering ...