ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,011, issued on July 8, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Data augmentation using machine translation capabilities of language models" was invented by Subham Biswas (Maharashtra, India) and Saurabh Tahiliani (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are embodiments for improving training data for machine learning (ML) models. In an embodiment, a method is disclosed where an augmentation engine receives a seed example, the seed example stored in a seed training data set; generates an encoded seed example of the seed example using an encoder; inputs the encoded seed example int...