ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,384, issued on April 29, was assigned to Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artifical Intellegence (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

"System and method for self-distilled vision transformer for domain generalization" was invented by Maryam Sultana (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Muhammad Muzammal Naseer (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Muhammad Haris Khan (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Salman Khan (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Fahad Shahbaz Khan (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for a machine learning engine for domain generalization which trains a vision transformer...