ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,109, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Wayfair LLC (Boston).

"Machine learning techniques for generating product imagery and their applications" was invented by Shrenik Sadalgi (Cambridge, Mass.), Rachana Sreedhar (Boston) and Christian Vazquez (Revere, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating images of furniture and using the generated images for image-based search. The techniques include obtaining a first image depicting first furniture, generating, using the first image and a neural network model, a second image depicting second furniture different from the first furniture, searching for one or more images o...