ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,519, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Castle Global Inc. (San Francisco).

"Training and deployment of image generation models" was invented by Dmitriy Karpman (San Francisco), Kevin Guo (San Francisco) and Ryan Weber (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method receives a text prompt. A text encoder is executed on the text prompt to generate a representation. The method generates a set of images based on the representation and a set of parameters of an image generation model. The set of images is ranked using reward values that are generated by a reward model. The reward model is trained using human i...