ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,865, issued on June 3, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Event prediction based on multimodal learning" was invented by Yang Zhang (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data processing are described. According to the techniques described herein, a sequential model may be trained using data of different modalities to be used for event recommendation or prediction for an entity or attendee of a future event. Encoders may be used to encode entity data and event data of different data types, and the encoded data may be used to generate vectors for input to a multimodal Transform...