ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,993, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Merging multiple images as input to an AI image generation algorithm" was invented by Charlie Denison (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system for fine tuning an image generated by an image generation artificial intelligence process includes receiving a generated image for a user prompt. The generated image is analyzed to identify image features included within. The identified image features are presented on a user interface for user selection for fine tuning. Selection of an image feature at the user interface is detected ...