ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,173, issued on April 7, was assigned to Avaya Management LP (Morristown, N.J.).

"Automatic generation of an image having an attribute from a subject image" was invented by Ghanshyam Asaram Baheti (Pune, India), Harshal Ramesh Gawande (Pune, India) and Trupti Vikas Dhore (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enables automatic generation of an image having an attribute using a subject image as a basis for the generated image. In a particular embodiment, a method includes executing a generator and a discriminator. Until a criterion is satisfied, the method includes iteratively performing steps a-c. ...