US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 24 for "Alt text validation system" (Kenyan, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,528, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Alt text validation system" was invented by Meshack Kokonya Musundi (Nairobi, Kenya), Jia Ma (New York) and Victor Onyango Oriko (Nairobi, Kenya).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Validation of alt text for images in web pages includes extracting image data from the web pages, the image data including source data and alt text data for a plurality of image elements in the web pages. Natural language descriptions of the image elements are generated by providing images defined by the source data to a computer vision component. Prompts are then gene...