ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,211, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Image colorization using machine learning" was invented by Nori Kanazawa (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to train and use a machine-learning model to colorize a grayscale image that depicts a person. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes receiving the grayscale image. The method further includes generating a colorized image based on the grayscale image as output of a trained convolutional neural network (CNN) by providing t...