US Patent Issued to DeepMind Technologies on April 29 for "Beam search decoding with forward-looking scores" (British, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,795, issued on April 29, was assigned to DeepMind Technologies Ltd. (London).

"Beam search decoding with forward-looking scores" was invented by Domenic Joseph Donato (Oviedo, Fla.), Christopher James Dyer (London) and Remi Leblond (Cachan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for beam search decoding. One of the methods includes initializing beam data specifying a set of k candidate output sequences and a respective total score for each of the candidate output sequences; updating the beam data at each of a plurality of decoding steps, comprising, at each decoding step: generating a score distribution that compris...