ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,850, issued on April 14, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Generative AI virtual clothing try-on" was invented by Mohammad Rami Koujan (Hitchin, Great Britain) and Iason Kokkinos (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial intelligence (AI) network or neural network is trained, using a relatively small number of reference images of a target garment, to enable virtual clothing try-ons of the target garment. Example methods include determining a pose for a person depicted in an input image, determining an area of the input image to replace with a target garment, changing values of pixels within the area, and ...