US Patent Issued to Brown University on June 9 for "Generating handwriting via decoupled style descriptors" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,384, issued on June 9, was assigned to Brown University (Providence, R.I.).

"Generating handwriting via decoupled style descriptors" was invented by Atsunobu Kotani (Tokyo), Stefanie Tellex (Providence, R.I.) and James Tompkin (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of representing a space of handwriting stroke styles includes representing writer-, character- and writer-character-level style variations within a recurrent neural network (RNN) model using decoupled style descriptors (DSD) that model the style variations such that character style variations depend on writer style."

The patent was filed on Aug. 23, 2021...