ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,795, issued on June 23, was assigned to Volkswagen Group of America Investments LLC (Reston, Va.).

"System, method, and computer program product for streaming data mining with text-image joint embeddings" was invented by Francesco Ferroni (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems, methods, and computer program products for streaming data mining with text-image joint embeddings by obtaining a roadway dataset, having a condition that each record in the roadway dataset includes an image logged by an autonomous vehicle (AV) in a roadway, generating based on a text-image model, an embedding dataset comprising an image em...