ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,273, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Text-to-image diffusion model rearchitecture" was invented by Pavlo Chemerys (Amsterdam), Colin Eles (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Ju Hu (Los Angeles), Qing Jin (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yanyu Li (Malden, Mass.), Ergeta Muca (Long Island City, N.Y.), Jian Ren (Marina Del Ray, Calif.), Dhritiman Sagar (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Aleksei Stoliar (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Sergey Tulyakov (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Huan Wang (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system for improving machine learning models. In some cases, the system improves such m...