ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,020, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Flexible image aspect ratio using machine learning" was invented by Xiao Feng (Mountain View, Calif.), Yuanzhen Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Yihui Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Omer Gimenez Llach (Mountain View, Calif.), Han Xu (Mountain View, Calif.), Mengjie Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Huiwen Chang (Mountain View, Calif.), AJ Maschinot (Mountain View, Calif.) and Dilip Krishnan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To adjust an aspect ratio of an image to match the aspect ratio of a display area for presenting the image, a computing device...