ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,898, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generative artificial intelligence visual effect generator" was invented by Haifeng Gong (Fremont, Calif.), Ruoting Wan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dongdong Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yicong Tian (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hang Qi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for enhancing text with image-based visual effects is presented. An initial text prompt including a phrase for display is submitted to a language model. The language model outputs a candidate prompt. The candidate prompt may be further modified to create an image prom...