ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,814, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DeepMind Technologies Ltd. (London).

"Recurrent unit for generating or processing a sequence of images" was invented by Pauline Luc (London), Aidan Clark (London), Sander Etienne Lea Dieleman (London) and Karen Simonyan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recurrent unit is proposed which, at each of a series of time steps receives a corresponding input vector and generates an output at the time step having at least one component for each of a two-dimensional array of pixels. The recurrent unit is configured, at each of the series of time steps except the first, to receive the output of the...