US Patent Issued to Snap on Feb. 17 for "Vision transformer for mobilenet size and speed" (American, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,371, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Vision transformer for mobilenet size and speed" was invented by Jian Ren (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Yanyu Li (Malden, Mass.), Ju Hu (Los Angeles), Yang Wen (San Jose, Calif.), Georgios Evangelidis (Vienna), Sergey Tulyakov (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Kamyar Salahi (La Canada, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile vision transformer network for use on mobile devices, such as smart eyewear devices and other augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) devices. The mobile vision transformer network considers factors including number of parameters, laten...