ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,584, issued on May 13, was assigned to National University of Defense Technology (Changsha, China).

"Method and apparatus for training few-shot event detection model based on multilingual prompt learning" was invented by Fei Cai (Hunan, China), Siyuan Wang (Hunan, China), Jianming Zheng (Hunan, China), Wanyu Chen (Hunan, China), Dengfeng Liu (Hunan, China), Peihong Li (Hunan, China), Shixian Liu (Hunan, China) and Xueshan Luo (Hunan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for training a few-shot event detection model based on multilingual prompt learning are provided, which includes: acquiring a training data set...