ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,017, issued on May 19, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Transforming digital images" was invented by David Michael Herman (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive an original image generated by a camera; execute a visual generative model prompted to generate a synthetic image that is a re-creation of the original image with an intended modification of objects of a preset type in the original image, the synthetic image including an actual modification resulting from the in...