ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,818, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DigiM Solution LLC (Woburn, Mass.).

"Methods and systems for optimizing an image generator" was invented by Timothy Hornick (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Shuang Zhang (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to methods and systems that generate images with structural features, including microstructures, from exemplar images. Such embodiments use an image generator steered by input attributes to generate structural features of synthetic images with the specified input attributes. The generated attributes can either accurately match the exemplar attributes or vary acco...