US Patent Issued to Snowflake on July 1 for "Natural language processing text-image-layout transformer" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,658, issued on July 1, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Natural language processing text-image-layout transformer" was invented by Lukasz Konrad Borchmann (Warsaw, Poland), Dawid Andrzej Jurkiewicz (Poznan, Poland), Tomasz Dwojak (Poznan, Poland), Michal Waldemar Pietruszka (Cracow, Poland) and Gabriela Klaudia Palka (Poznan, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system, method, and storage medium for Natural Language Processing (NLP) of real-world documents via a cloud data platform. The system combines three NLP models, including an encoder-decoder model, a spatial model, and a multi-modal mode...