US Patent Issued to International Business Machines, University of Massachusetts Amherst on July 15 for "Retrieval-based, self-supervised augmentation using transformer models" (New York, New Jersey, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,977, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, Mass.).

"Retrieval-based, self-supervised augmentation using transformer models" was invented by Michael Robert Glass (Bayonne, N.J.), Gaetano Rossiello (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Ankita Rajaram Naik (New York) and Xueqing Wu (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer system comprising a memory communicatively coupled to a processor system. The processor system is operable to perform processor syst...