US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 1 for "Control font generation consistency" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,321, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Control font generation consistency" was invented by Li Chen (Redmond, Wash.) and Ji Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating custom art fonts with consistent style include receiving user input that identifies a base font style for a custom font and includes descriptive text that defies one or more text effects to use for the custom font. Depth maps are selected for characters to be included in the custom font. The depth maps are preprocessed to add noise to the depth maps. A generative model gen...