ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,042, issued on May 27, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Image generation method, apparatus, and device, and storage medium" was invented by Caijin Zhou (Beijing), Xinghong Hu (Beijing) and Youwen Zhuang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image generation method, apparatus, and device, and a storage medium are provided. The method comprises: setting at least two brush layers for a target image, wherein each of the at least two brush layers is set with a preset brush density; determining, for each brush layer, attributes of brush objects on the brush layer based on the preset brush densi...