ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,945, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.) and Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Systems and associated methods for aligning outputs of different artificial intelligence (AI) models" was invented by Bethany Tinklenberg (San Mateo, Calif.), Tatianna Forget (San Mateo, Calif.) and Mahdi Azmandian (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first AI-based image generation system generates a reference image based on a reference input specification that is initially set equal to an initial input for AI-based image generation. A second AI-based image generation syste...