ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,805, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Content-aware artificial intelligence generated frames for digital images" was invented by Farzaneh Rajabi (San Jose, Calif.) and Ji Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements receiving an image and a natural language prompt input by a user requesting that an application generate an digital picture frame for the image; analyzing the prompt using a key-phrase extraction unit to extract one or more key phrases from the prompt that describe a topic of the frame to be generated for the image; provid...