ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,370, issued on July 21, was assigned to BRIA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Prompt based background replacement" was invented by Yair Adato (Kfar Ben Nun, Israel), Michael Feinstein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Nimrod Sarid (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ron Mokady (Ramat Hasaron, Israel) and Eyal Gutflaish (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for prompt based background replacement are provided. A visual content including a background portion and at least one foreground object may be accessed. Further, a textual input indicative of a desire of an individual to ...