US Patent Issued to SAS Institute on July 1 for "Decoder-only transformer model for time series data" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,404, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAS Institute Inc. (Cary, N.C.).

"Decoder-only transformer model for time series data" was invented by Ruiwen Zhang (Cary, N.C.), Bingfeng (Ben) Ding (Cary, N.C.), Samuel Paul Leeman-Munk (Durham, N.C.), Rui Liu (Cary, N.C.) and Lochan Basnet (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include forecasting a series of future data points in a long sequence time series data using a decoder-only transformer model by dividing the long sequence time series data into a plurality of sequences, converting each sequence of the plurality of sequences into a first vector to obtain a...