US Patent Issued to Block on March 17 for "Artificial intelligence-generated backgrounds" (California, Colorado, Oklahoma, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,703, issued on March 17, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Artificial intelligence-generated backgrounds" was invented by Bo Han (San Francisco), Mark Dolan (El Cerrito, Calif.), Jonathan Suhr (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Pierre Liebenberg (Norman, Okla.), Kolten Robison (Aurora, Colo.), John O'Brien-Carelli (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Marc David Perry (San Anselmo, Calif.) and Man Wai Winnie Yeung (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating images of items with artificial intelligence (AI)-generated backgrounds is described. An example process includes capturing an image(s) of an item, obtaining first image data that ident...