ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,165, issued on June 9, was assigned to The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute (New York).

"Techniques for training a generative relational network" was invented by Yasmine Van Wilt (New York), James Anderson (New York), Brian E. Wallace (London) and Matthew Loftspring (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for training relational networks. A method includes applying a self-organizing map (SOM) to training data in order to create a visualization. The SOM is a neural network configured to transform relationships between data items. The visualization has a lower dimensionality than the training data. The...