ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,370, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Arbitrary size content item generation" was invented by Guannan Zhang (Shanghai) and Zuo Yan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatically generating a content item may include receiving a content item template having a set of elements for creating a content item and content item data for the set of elements. A placeholder for each element of the set of elements may be generated and a space allocation for each element may be selected based on the generated placeholders for each element. A determination if a conflict exists based on the d...