ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,320, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Image style transfer" was invented by Pablo Pernias Pascual de Pobil (San Juan de Alicante, Spain), Santiago Iglesias Navarro (Palma de Mallorca, Spain), Robert B. Moore (Clermont, Fla.) and David N. Juboor (Johnson City, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating modified images using content information and style information are disclosed. First image data comprising image content information is received, and a content encoder generates a first embedding by extracting the image content information from the first image data. A sec...