ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,627, issued on June 30, was assigned to GDM Holding LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating images using sparse representations" was invented by Charlie Thomas Curtis Nash (London) and Peter William Battaglia (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating compressed representations of synthetic images. One of the methods is a method of generating a synthetic image using a generative neural network, and includes: generating, using the generative neural network, a plurality of coefficients that represent the synthetic image after the...