ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,384, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for learning unified representations of language, image, and point cloud for three-dimensional recognition" was invented by Le Xue (Mountain View, Calif.), Chen Xing (Palo Alto, Calif.), Juan Carlos Niebles Duque (Mountain View, Calif.), Caiming Xiong (Menlo Park, Calif.), Ran Xu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Silvio Savarese (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training a neural network based three-dimensional (3D) encoder is provided. A training dataset is generated using a plurality of 3D models of a 3D model datas...