ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,630, issued on July 14, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Minimalist multi-modal approach to few-shot class-incremental learning" was invented by Thang Doan (San Francisco), Sima Behpour (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Wenbin He (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Liang Gou (San Jose, Calif.) and Liu Ren (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) that utilizes a combination of Session Specific Prompts (SSP) and hyperbolic distance metrics to enhance session-wise learning and representation of image-text pairings across differing classes. The metho...