ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,308, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Canva Pty Ltd (Surry Hills, Australia).

"Computer-implemented systems and methods for machine-learning model generation of composite images" was invented by Bhautik Jitendra Joshi (Lewisham, Australia), Oliver Daniel Richards (Northbridge, Australia), Christopher James Cook (Ryde, Australia), Karolina Pawlikowska (Sydney), Joan Dyquiangco Magno (Waterloo, Australia) and Monika Rie Murata (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented methods and associated systems are described, which have particular application to image generation by machine learning models. A method of generating...