ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,166, issued on June 10, was assigned to Steven D. Flinn (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Iterative attention-based neural network training and processing" was invented by Steven Dennis Flinn (Sugar Land, Texas) and Naomi Felina Moneypenny (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An iterative attention-based neural network training and processing method and system iteratively applies a focus of attention of a trained neural network on syntactical elements and generates probabilities associated with representations of the syntactical elements, which in turn inform a subsequent focus of attention of the neural network, resulting in updated ...