ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,210, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generative artificial intelligence" was invented by Haifeng Gong (Fremont, Calif.), Xiaohang Li (Cupertino, Calif.) and Samuel Forrest Terwilliger (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 automated image generation. Methods can include generating, by an artificial intelligence ("AI") system, image prompts based on (i) a category and (ii) a set of constraints. At least one of the image prompts is removed based on a set of excluded terms that are not allowed ...