ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,420, issued on July 22, was assigned to SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"User targeted content generation using multimodal embeddings" was invented by Ajay Divakaran (Monmouth Junction, N.J.), Karan Sikka (Lawrenceville, N.J.), Arijit Ray (Princeton, N.J.), Xiao Lin (Princeton, N.J.) and Yi Yao (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and system for determining user-content associations for determining and providing user-preferred content using multimodal embeddings include creating an embedding space for multimodal content by creating a first modality vector representation of the multimodal content...