ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,848, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"One-shot visual language reasoning over graphical depictions of data" was invented by Julian Martin Eisenschlos (Zurich, Switzerland), Francesco Piccinno (Zurich, Switzerland), Yasemin Altun (Zurich, Switzerland), Syrine Krichene (Zurich, Switzerland), Kenton Chiu Tsun Lee (Kirkland, Wash.), Fangyu Liu (Cambridge, Great Britain), Mandar Joshi (Seattle), Chenxi Pang (Zurich, Switzerland) and Wenhu Chen (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a one-shot solution to visual language reasoning. Example systems described herein decompose the c...