US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Cross-modal semi-supervised data labeling" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,404, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cross-modal semi-supervised data labeling" was invented by Bin Shang (Xian, China), Xue Ying Zhang (Xian, China), Yang Liang (Beijing), Na Liu (Xian, China), Chen Yu Chang (Xian, China) and Fei Qi (Xian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computer processors extract respective features for each inter-modal sample in an inter-modal dataset, for each intra-modal sample in an intra-modal dataset, and a subsequent sample, wherein the inter-modal dataset and the intra-modal dataset are contained in a multi-modal training dataset....