ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,698, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Supervised contrastive learning for visual grounding" 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: "A method of training a neural network model includes generating a positive image based on an original image, generating a positive text corresponding to the positive image based on an original text corresponding to the original image, the positive text referring to an object in the positive image...