ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,818, issued on March 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Sequence modeling using imputation" was invented by William Chan (Markham, Canada), Chitwan Saharia (Toronto), Geoffrey E. Hinton (Toronto), Mohammad Norouzi (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Navdeep Jaitly (Mountain View, Calif.).
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 sequence modeling. One of the methods includes receiving an input sequence having a plurality of input positions; determining a plurality of blocks of consecutive input positions; processing the input sequence...