ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,007, issued on May 13, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Automatic image cropping" was invented by Ilya Levner (Woodinville, Wash.), Aditya Ghuge (Seattle) and Tabrez Mohammed (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are generally described for cropped image evaluation. In various examples, first image data representing a first image and second image data representing a cropped version of the first image may be received. An image captioning model may be used to generate first text data describing the first image data and second text data describing the second image data. A first encoder may be us...