ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,420, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Segmentation free guidance in diffusion models" was invented by Kambiz Azarian Yazdi (San Diego), Fatih Murat Porikli (San Diego), Qiqi Hou (San Diego) and Debasmit Das (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating an output image based on a text prompt. A method may include receiving the text prompt; providing a user interface comprising one or more input elements associated with one or more words of the text prompt; receiving input corresponding to at least one of the one or more input elements, ...