US Patent Issued to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology on Aug. 19 for "Encoding apparatuses, and data processing methods and apparatuses" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,186, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang, China).

"Encoding apparatuses, and data processing methods and apparatuses" was invented by Qingpei Guo (Hangzhou, China) and Wei Chu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system for encoding includes an encoding layer and at least one joint encoding unit. The encoding layer encodes a received first modal initial feature vector and a received second modal initial feature vector, to generate, respectively, a first modal feature vector and a second modal feature vector, joint encoded by the at least one ...