ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,190, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for classifying images using an artificial intelligence model" was invented by Burak Uzkent (Mountain View, Calif.), Vasili Ramanishka (Mountain View, Calif.), Yilin Shen (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Hongxia Jin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for performing image processing, may include at least one processor configured to: input an image to a vision transformer comprising a plurality of encoders that correspond to at least one fixed encoder and a plurality of adaptive encoders; process the i...