ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,867, issued on June 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and system of using domain specific knowledge in retrieving multimodal assets" was invented by Adit Krishnan (Seattle), Varun Tandon (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ji Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for retrieving multimodal assets using domain-specific knowledge includes receiving a search query for searching for multimodal assets; encoding the search query into a first query representation via a first trained query representation machine-learning (ML) model and a second query representation via a second trained...