ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,494, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Generating customized graphical elements from user-provided images" was invented by Richard Kenneth Zadorozny (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating customized graphical elements are described. For example, a social networking system may receive, from a device of an account of a social networking system, an image including at least a portion of a face of a user associated with the account. The social networking system may generate a face mesh including at least a portion of the face depicted in the image, and then may expand...