ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,808, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"AI-based visual content collage generation" was invented by Aryan Singh (Noida, India), Gaurav Vinayak Tendolkar (Reston, Va.), Sumithra Bhakthavatsalam (Kirkland, Wash.), Prashant Gupta (Auraiya, India), Mayura Vijayendra Bisineer (Cupertino, Calif.) and Akshiv Baluja (Delhi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements receiving, via a user interface of a client device, images for generating a collage image; generating captions for the images; constructing a first prompt by appending the captions to a first inst...