ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,154, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Photospread engine(s) for collage generation" was invented by Gaurav Vinayak Tendolkar (San Jose, Calif.) and Aryan Singh (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein provide a photospread engine and its related functions. In an example, a method includes identifying, by a photospread engine, images for a photospread and determining image areas based on the plurality of images. Each of the image areas may correspond to a respective image. The photospread engine may also determine a center point for each image area an...