ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,160, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating images using sequences of generative neural networks" was invented by Chitwan Saharia (Toronto), William Chan (Toronto), Mohammad Norouzi (Richmond Hill, Canada), Saurabh Saxena (Mississauga, Canada), Yi Li (Oakville, Canada), Jay Ha Whang (Austin, Texas), David James Fleet (Toronto) and Jonathan Ho (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating images. In one aspect, a method includes: receiving an input text prompt including a sequence of ...