US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 18 for "Systems and methods for contrastive learning of visual representations" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,413, issued on March 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for contrastive learning of visual representations" was invented by Ting Chen (Toronto), Simon Komblith (Toronto), Mohammad Norouzi (Toronto), Geoffrey Everest Hinton (Toronto) and Kevin Jordan Swersky (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products for performing semi-supervised contrastive learning of visual representations are provided. For example, the present disclosure provides systems and methods that leverage particular data augmentation schemes and a learnable nonlinear transf...