ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,410, issued on March 18, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Machine learning technique for automatic modeling of multiple-valued outputs" was invented by Tero Tapani Karras (Helsinki), Timo Oskari Aila (Tuusula, Finland) and Samuli Matias Laine (Vantaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are disclosed for training a model that implements a machine-learning algorithm. The technique utilizes latent descriptor vectors to change a multiple-valued output problem into a single-valued output problem and includes the steps of receiving a set of training data, processing, by a model, the set of train...