ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,539, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Computer vision neural networks with learned tokenization" was invented by Michael Sahngwon Ryoo (Mountain View, Calif.), Anthony Jacob Piergiovanni (Nazareth, Pa.), Anelia Angelova (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anurag Arnab (Grenoble, France) and Mostafa Dehghani (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing a network input using a computer vision neural network with learned tokenization."

The patent was filed on June 21, 2022, under Application No. 17/845,753...