ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,573, issued on May 26, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Method, system, and computer program product for embedding compression and regularization" was invented by Haoyu Li (Columbus, Ohio), Junpeng Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Liang Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Yan Zheng (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Wei Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product is provided for embedding compression and reconstruction. The method includes receiving embedding vector data comprising a plurality of embedding vectors. A beta-variational autoencoder is trained based on ...