ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,849, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for multimodal pretraining for three-dimensional understanding models" was invented by Le Xue (Mountain View, Calif.), Ning Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shu Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Junnan Li (Singapore), Caiming Xiong (Menlo Park, Calif.), Silvio Savarese (Palo Alto, Calif.), Juan Carlos Niebles Duque (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ran Xu (Mountain View, 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 first plurality of samples of a training dataset are generated usin...