ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,618, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for real-world cross-modal retrieval problems" was invented by Minyoung Kim (Chertsey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Broadly speaking, the present application generally relates to a method for training a machine learning, ML, model to perform real world cross-modal retrieval problems, and to a computer-implemented method and apparatus for performing real world cross-modal retrieval problems such as including text-based video retrieval, sketch-based image retrieval, and image-text retrieval using a train...