ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,269, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of training image captioning model and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Hyungseok Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Sung Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Gunhee Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hoeseong Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jongseok Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training an image captioning model includes: extracting a feature of a first image from the first image and extracting a feature of a secon...