US Patent Issued to Snap on Feb. 3 for "Diffusion model image cropping" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,888, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Diffusion model image cropping" was invented by Roman Golobokov (London), Sergey Smetanin (London), Matthew Mahar (San Francisco), Daniel Moreno Cuellar (New York), Ranidu Lankage (Belmont, Calif.), Timur Zakirov (London), Nikita Demidov (London), Prasad Tare (Flushing, N.Y.), Jose Antonio Loio Parente (Farnborough, Great Britain), Dor Ayalon (Glasgow, Great Britain), Vladimir Gordienko (London), Anton Pankratov (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Ivan Babanin (London), Aleksandr Belskikh (London), Aliaksei Mikhailiuk (London) and Pavel Savchenkov (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Tr...