US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 6 for "Weighted deep fusion architecture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,273, issued on May 6, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Weighted deep fusion architecture" was invented by Xiaolong Wang (Campbell, Calif.), Qinghan Xue (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Abhishek Kolagunda (San Jose, Calif.) and Steven Nicholas Eliuk (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a computer program product, and a computer system fuse features for multi-modal classifications for a plurality of modality inputs. The method includes receiving a request indicative of the modality inputs to be selected. The method includes performing an embeddings level fusion operation to concatenate fe...