ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,057, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Dual channel network for multivariate time series retrieval with static statuses" was invented by Takehiko Mizoguchi (Princeton, N.J.), Liang Tong (Lawrenceville, N.J.), Wei Cheng (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and Haifeng Chen (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method is provided. The method includes jointly encoding, by a dual-channel feature extractor, a current time series segment with corresponding static statuses into a compact feature. The method further includes converting, by a binary code extractor, the compact feature into a bina...