US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Aug. 25 for "Diffusion-based image synthesis with defect blending via feature-level optimization" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,427, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Diffusion-based image synthesis with defect blending via feature-level optimization" was invented by Marcus A. Pereira (Lubbock, Texas), Wan-Yi Lin (Wexford, Pa.), Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi (Coraopolis, Pa.) and Ru-Yu Wang (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method generates a synthetic image with a blended defect, combining a first and second defect. A target feature map is created by merging masked feature maps derived from source images displaying the respective defects. These feature maps are generated using a machine learnin...