ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,445, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Automatic image quality evaluation" was invented by Mykyta Bakunov (Adliswil, Switzerland), Arnab Ghosh (Oxford, Great Britain), Pavel Savchenkov (London), Sergey Smetanin (London) and Jian Ren (Marina Del Ray, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein describe techniques for automatic image quality evaluation. A first set of images generated by a first automated image generator and a second set of images generated by a second automated image generator are accessed. A first machine learning model generates a first quality indicator for each...