ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,167, issued on June 3, was assigned to YAHOO AD TECH LLC (New York).

"Computerized system and method for image creation using generative adversarial networks" was invented by Yueh-Ning Ku (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mikhail Kuznetsov (New York), Shaunak Mishra (New York) and Paloma de Juan (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed frameworks for generating an image including a salient object and a staged background include extracting a salient object from a source image and applying a generative model to the salient object to generate the image. According to some embodiments, extracting a salient object from a source image involves ...