ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,623, issued on July 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Identity management in image generation" was invented by Osama Makansi (Nufringen, Germany), Amit Kumar Agrawal (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Oleksandr Vorobiov (Albstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for generating images of an approved identity wearing an article of clothing. The image generation system may generate an image of a person with a blurred face wearing a particular article of clothing based on a received clothing image and estimated attributes from an image depicting the face...