US Patent Issued to DeepMind Technologies on July 29 for "Auto-regressive neural network systems with a soft attention mechanism using support data patches" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,695, issued on July 29, was assigned to DeepMind Technologies Ltd. (London).

"Auto-regressive neural network systems with a soft attention mechanism using support data patches" was invented by Aaron Gerard Antonius van den Oord (London), Yutian Chen (Cambridge, Great Britain), Danilo Jimenez Rezende (London), Oriol Vinyals (London), Joao Ferdinando Gomes de Freitas (London) and Scott Ellison Reed (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a causal convolutional neural network to autoregressively generate a succession of values of a data item conditioned upon previously generated values of the data item. The system in...