ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,147, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Unified representation learning of media features for diverse tasks" was invented by Amanmeet Garg (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Gannon Gesiriech (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for generating general feature vectors (GFVs), each simultaneously constructed for separate tasks of image reconstruction and fingerprint-based image discrimination. The computing system may include machine-learning-based components configured for extracting GFVs from images, signal processing for both transmission and reception and recovery of t...