US Patent Issued to SNAP on Sept. 23 for "Face identity preservation for image-to-image models using stable diffusion generative model" (British, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,777, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Face identity preservation for image-to-image models using stable diffusion generative model" was invented by Aleksandr Belskikh (London), Georgii Grigorev (Amsterdam) and Pavel Savchenkov (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives an input image and a segmentation mask of the input image. The subject technology obtains reconstructed noise of the input image using the input image and the segmentation mask. The subject technology determines a first set of features by performing a first portion of a forward pass of the reconstructed...