ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,187, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Pretraining framework for neural networks" was invented by Xiaosong Wang (Rockville, Md.), Ziyue Xu (Reston, Va.), Lickkong Tam (Santa Clara, Calif.), Dong Yang (Pocatello, Idaho) and Daguang Xu (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to indicate an extent, to which text corresponds to one or more images. In at least one embodiment, an extent to which text corresponds to one or more images is indicated using one or more neural networks and used to train the one or more neural networks."

The patent was filed on June ...