US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 4 for "Multi-stage image querying" (Washington, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,965, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multi-stage image querying" was invented by Xiaodong He (Sammamish, Wash.), Li Deng (Redmond, Wash.), Jianfeng Gao (Woodinville, Wash.), Alex Smola (Pittsburgh) and Zichao Yang (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a computing device refines feature information of query text. The device repeatedly determines attention information based at least in part on feature information of the image and the feature information of the query text, and modifies the feature information of the query text based at least in part on the att...