ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,751, issued on April 7, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Image synthesis based on predictive analytics" was invented by Hernan A. Cunico (Holly Springs, N.C.), Craig M. Trim (Ventura, Calif.), Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.) and Caleb Miles (Columbia, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes analyzing a first digital image using a first trained neural network that classifies the first image as having a first context based on a plurality of characteristics of the first image. The embodiment generates a data structure that associates first and second elements depicted in the firs...