US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises, ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) on July 7 for "Identity-preserving image generation using diffusion models" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,917, issued on July 7, was assigned to Disney Enterprises INC. (Burbank, Calif.) and ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Identity-preserving image generation using diffusion models" was invented by Manuel Jakob Kansy (Zurich), Anton Julien Rael (Zurich), Jacek Krzysztof Naruniec (Windlach, Switzerland), Christopher Richard Schroers (Uster, Switzerland) and Romann Matthew Weber (Uster, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing identity-preserving image generation. The technique includes converting an identity imag...