ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,242, issued on July 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Decentralized online multi-agent visual question answering" was invented by Ghulam Ahmed Ansari (Sikhvillage Secunderabad, India), Sai Koti Reddy Danda (Narasaraopeta, India), Amrita Saha (Bangalore, India) and Srikanth Govindaraj Tamilselvam (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach to real-time multi-agent visual question answering in a decentralized environment. The approach can include initializing a plurality of agents based on data associated with an image and a question about the image. The approach can include ident...