ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,196, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Controllable diffusion model based image gallery recommendation service" was invented by Hong Xuan (Bellevue, Wash.), Li Huang (Sammamish, Wash.), Huangxing Li (Bellevue, Wash.) and Xi Chen (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include methods and systems for leveraging a controllable diffusion model for dynamic image search in an image gallery recommendation service. An exemplary method can include displaying an image gallery having a plurality of gallery images and a dynamic image frame. The dynamic image ...