ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,863, issued on June 3, was assigned to BenevolentAl Technology Ltd. (London).

"Attention filtering for multiple instance learning" was invented by Paidi Creed (London), Aaron Jefferson Khey Jin Sim (London), Stephen Thomas Spencer (London) and Mikko Juhani Vilenius (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method(s), apparatus, and system(s) are provided for filtering a set of data, the set of data comprising multiple data instances by: receiving a set of scores for the set of data; determining attention filtering information based on prior knowledge of one or more relationships between the data instances in said set of data and calculat...