ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,240, issued on July 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for multimodal indexing of video using machine learning" was invented by Wentao Zhu (Redmond, Wash.), Mohamed Kamal Omar (Seattle), Han-Kai Hsu (Seattle), Xiaohang Sun (Bellevue, Wash.) and Ashutosh Sanan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods multimodal indexing of video using machine learning. An example method may include deceiving, by a video encoder of an audio-video transformer neural network comprising one or more computer processors coupled to mem...