ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,220, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems, apparatus, and methods for improving composition of images" was invented by Yu-Chuan Su (Mountain View, Calif.), Raviteja Vemulpalli (Seattle), Lior Shapira (Mountain View, Calif.), Colvin Pitts (Mountain View, Calif.), Benjamin Weiss (Carpinteria, Calif.) and Andy Rogers (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, and methods are presented for improving the composition of images. One method includes receiving a first preview image of a scene and processing the first preview image using a first machine learning model to d...