ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,426, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Interactive diffusion-based image generation" was invented by Karim Bouyarmane (Seattle), Suren Suren Kumar (Seattle), Amirhossein Tavanaei (Newcastle, Wash.), Ismail Baha Tutar (Seattle) and Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for an image generation system that can virtually place an object into an image while preserving the details of the object and image using a latent diffusion model. The image generation system can receive an image from a user indicating a region within that image in which to...