ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,340, issued on July 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Fully attentional computer vision" was invented by Jonathon Shlens (San Francisco), Ashish Teku Vaswani (San Francisco), Niki J. Parmar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Prajit Ramachandran (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anselm Caelifer Levskaya (Oakland, Calif.) and Irwan Bello (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system implemented as computer programs on one or more computers in one or more locations that implements a computer vision model is described. The computer vision model includes a positional local self-attention layer that is configured to receive an input f...