ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,530, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Performing computing tasks using decoupled models for different data types" was invented by Eric Chris Wolfgang Sommerlade (Oxford, Great Britain), Mohsen Fayyaz (Berlin) and Nazuk Jain (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique executes tasks using a data store of machine-trained models. The data store specifically includes a subset of encoder-type machine-trained models for converting input data items having different input data types into respective embeddings in a vector space, and a subset of decoder-type machine-trained...