US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Sept. 30 for "Flexible framework for joint representation learning and unknown category discovery" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,562, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Flexible framework for joint representation learning and unknown category discovery" was invented by Xuhui Jia (Bellingham, Wash.), Yukun Zhu (Seattle), Bradley Green (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kai Han (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing deep learning models capable of performing joint representation learning and new category discovery on a mixture of labeled and unlabeled data, which may include single- and multi-modal data. In some examples, a flexible end-to-end framework uses unified contrastive learning ...