ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,124, issued on March 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Personalized machine learning system to edit images based on a provided style" was invented by Shaona Ghosh (Campbell, Calif.), Milind Lingineni (Irvine, Calif.) and Come H. Weber (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Machine learning (ML) models are introduced for image stylization, which learn and apply multiple selectable image styles, including styles learned in an ad hoc fashion. According to some embodiments, such models may be trained on images or image pairs comprising images stylized into one or more of a plurality of predetermined styles. At inference ...