ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,696, issued on July 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multi-layer perceptron-based computer vision neural networks" was invented by Ilya Tolstikhin (Adliswil, Switzerland), Neil Matthew Tinmouth Houlsby (Zurich), Alexander Kolesnikov (Zurich), Lucas Klaus Beyer (Zurich), Alexey Dosovitskiy (Berlin), Mario Lucic (Adliswil, Switzerland), Xiaohua Zhai (Zurich), Thomas Unterthiner (Berlin), Daniel M. Keysers (Stallikon, Switzerland), Jakob D. Uszkoreit (Berlin), Yin Ching Jessica Yung (Vienna) and Andreas Peter Steiner (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer progra...