US Patent Issued to Adobe on July 1 for "Enhanced document visual question answering system via hierarchical attention" (Maryland, New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,655, issued on July 1, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enhanced document visual question answering system via hierarchical attention" was invented by Shijie Geng (Piscataway, N.J.), Christopher Tensmeyer (Columbia, Md.), Curtis Michael Wigington (San Jose, Calif.) and Jiuxiang Gu (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing Document Visual Question Answering tasks are described. A document and query are received. The document encodes document tokens and the query encodes query tokens. The document is segmented into nested document sections, lines, and tokens. A nested structure of tokens...