US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 8 for "Multi-task sequence tagging with injection of supplemental information" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,998, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multi-task sequence tagging with injection of supplemental information" was invented by Luis Gerardo Mojica De La Vega (Redmond, Wash.), Qiang Lou (Sammamish, Wash.), Jian Jiao (Bellevue, Wash.) and Ruofei Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tagging system appends supplemental information to an original sequence of items, to produce a supplemented sequence of items. The tagging system includes a transformer-based encoder neural network that maps the supplemented sequence into hidden state information. The tagging syst...