ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,063, issued on March 18, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cross-modality curiosity for sparse-reward tasks" was invented by Sai Rajeswar Mudumba (Montreal), Cyril Ibrahim (Montreal), Nitin Surya (Gurugram, India), Florian Golemo (Montreal), David Vasquez (Montreal) and Pedro O. Pinheiro (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are provided that include generating, by an inter-modal predictor, predicted second-mode information for a first text-based record based on first-mode information of the first text-based record. Embodiments also include generating a first value by evaluating a first loss func...