ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,615, issued on July 14, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Sparse semantic disentangled face attribute editing" was invented by Tianyi Chen (Redmond, Wash.), Tianyu Ding (Kirkland, Wash.), Luming Liang (Redmond, Wash.), Ilya Dmitriyevich Zharkov (Redmond, Wash.) and Guangzhi Wang (Singapore, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein provides an improved framework for a face editing task performed by a machine-learning model. The technology provides a self-training strategy aimed at achieving more robust and generalizable face video editing. The self-training strategy helps...