ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,347, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and system of retrieving multimodal assets" was invented by Adit Krishnan (Mountain View, Calif.), Ji Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Amit Srivastava (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method and for retrieving one or more one or more multimodal assets includes receiving a search query for searching for one or more multimodal assets from among a plurality of candidate multimodal assets, encoding the search query into one or more query embedding representations via a trained query representation machine-learning (ML...