ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,945, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating a group photo that includes a photographer" was invented by Adi Zicher (Mountain View, Calif.), Assaf Zomet (Mountain View, Calif.), Maayan Rossmann (Mountain View, Calif.), Jung-Chen Hung (Mountain View, Calif.), Or Guz (Mountain View, Calif.), Jay Tenenbaum (Mountain View, Calif.), Avram Golbert (Mountain View, Calif.), Yaron Brodsky (Mountain View, Calif.) and Fuhao Shi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device receives a request to generate a composite image. The media application a first image that includes one or ...