ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,920, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing fixed-point image-to-image translation using improved generative adversarial networks (GANs)" was invented by Jianming Liang (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Zongwei Zhou (Tempe, Ariz.), Nima Tajbakhsh (Los Angeles) and Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are means for implementing fixed-point image-to-image translation using improved Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). For instance, an exemplary system is speciall...