ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,035, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Test-time self-supervised guidance for diffusion models" was invented by Risheek Garrepalli (San Diego), Yunxiao Shi (San Diego), Hong Cai (San Diego), Yinhao Zhu (La Jolla, Calif.), Shubhankar Mangesh Borse (San Diego), Jisoo Jeong (San Diego), Debasmit Das (San Diego), Manish Kumar Singh (San Diego), Rajeev Yasarla (San Diego), Shizhong Steve Han (San Diego) and Fatih Murat Porikli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for processing image data. According to some aspects, a computing device can generate a gradient (e.g., a ...