ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,822, issued on July 8, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Methods and systems for generating alternative content" was invented by Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.), Vincent Pham (Seattle), Galen Rafferty (Mahomet, Ill.), Alvin Hua (McLean, Va.), Anh Truong (Champaign, Ill.), Ernest Kwak (Urbana, Ill.) and Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for using a generative adversarial network to generate personalized content in real-time as a user accesses original content. The methods and systems perform the generation through the use of an application programming interface ("API...