ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,772, issued on March 31, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Techniques for training identity transfer models" was invented by Wenbin Ouyang (Redmond, Wash.) and Naveen Sudhakaran Nair (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are provided for training and/or inferencing using machine-learning models. In at least one embodiment, an identity embedding and a content embedding are extracted from training media data, such as training audio data and/or training visual data. The identity embedding may encode information relating to a person's voice and/or visual properties. A decoder ma...