ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,756, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Query evaluation for image retrieval and conditional image generation" was invented by Pratyay Banerjee (San Jose, Calif.), Ojas Yashwant Joshi (Redwood City, Calif.) and Amita Misra (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are generally described for query evaluation for image retrieval and image generation. In various examples, a first encoded representation of first natural language input data may be generated. An image retrieval process may be selected from among the image retrieval process and an image generation process based at leas...