ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,324, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generating large datasets of style-specific and content-specific images using generative machine-learning models to match a small set of sample images" was invented by Maurice Diesendruck (Bellevue, Wash.) and Harsh Shrivastava (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to utilizing a style-matching image generation system to generate large datasets of style-matching images having matching styles and content to an initial small sample set of input images. For example, the style-matching image generation syste...