US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 15 for "Hardware-aware efficient architectures for text-to-image diffusion models" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,934, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hardware-aware efficient architectures for text-to-image diffusion models" was invented by Shubhankar Mangesh Borse (San Diego), Risheek Garrepalli (San Diego), Qiqi Hou (San Diego), Jisoo Jeong (San Diego), Shreya Kadambi (San Diego), Munawar Hayat (San Diego) and Fatih Murat Porikli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method includes receiving a text-semantic input at a first stage of a neural network, including a first convolutional block and no attention layers. The method receives, at a second stage, a first output from the first ...