ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,231, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Classification by vision-language model with optimized text embeddings" was invented by Roy Uziel (Herzliya, Israel), Oded Bialer (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Dan Levi (Ganei Tikvah, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein, a technology that facilitates the optimization of vision-language (VL) based classifiers with text embeddings is discussed. The technology includes tuning the VL-based classifier employing a pre-trained image encoder of a visual-language model (VLM) for imaging embedding of pre-classified images and a pre-trained textual enco...