ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,813, issued on July 1, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Online knowledge distillation for multi-task learning system, method, device, and program" was invented by Geethu Jacob (Karnataka, India), Vishal Agarwal (Karnataka, India) and Bjorn Stenger (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for image processing using a multi-task neural network framework may be provided. The method be executed by one or more processors, and may include receiving an input image; and generating one or more image patches based on the input image. The method may include perform...