ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,567, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Methods and systems for emotion-controllable generalized talking face generation" was invented by Sanjana Sinha (Kolkata, India), Sandika Biswas (Kolkata, India) and Brojeshwar Bhowmick (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for emotion-controllable generalized talking face generation of an arbitrary face image. Most of the conventional techniques for the realistic talking face generation may not be efficient to control the emotion over the face and have limited scope of generalizati...