ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,283, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Generation of semantically modified variations of images with transformer networks" was invented by Andres Mauricio Munoz Delgado (Schoenaich, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a semantically modified variation of an image. In the method: the image is divided into equally sized, non-overlapping patches; the patches are converted with a patch encoding function of a transformer network into a chain of tokens in a workspace; the tokens are grouped into preservation tokens, whose information is to be preserved in the variation, a...