ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,207, issued on July 28, was assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Image editing" was invented by Guohao Li (Beijing), Jiachen Liu (Beijing) and Xinyan Xiao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that includes: obtaining an editing instruction input by a user in a current round of a dialogue and history dialogue information in at least one history round of the dialogue, wherein the history dialogue information comprises a history dialogue text and at least one history image; determining a source image to be edited from the at least one history image based on the editing instruct...