US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 11 for "Generating captchas using generative imaging models" (Washington, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,556, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generating captchas using generative imaging models" was invented by Shawn Cantin Callegari (Bellevue, Wash.), Shane Michael Chism (Bellevue, Wash.), Chipalo N. Street (Seattle) and Nicholas Becker (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating completely automated public Turing test (CAPTCHA) images are provided. In some examples, a method includes generating a plurality of images using a generative imaging model, providing the plurality of images to a user with a description that corresponds to one of a s...