ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,297, issued on March 24, was assigned to Outward Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Interactive image generation" was invented by Clarence Chui (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Manu Parmar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Akshansh Chaudhry (San Jose, Calif.), Himanshu Jain (Milpitas, Calif.), Andrew Pang (Fremont, Calif.), Lakshay Sharma (San Jose, Calif.) and Brook Aaron Seaton (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content generation platform is generally described herein. More specifically, interactive image generation and techniques and features thereof are disclosed herein. An arbitrary input image captured in an unknown environment is process...