ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,712, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo) and Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Asset creation using generative artificial intelligence" was invented by Bethany Tinklenberg (Oakland, Calif.), Edward Y. Cheung (Castro Valley, Calif.), Tatianna Forget (Mountain View, Calif.) and Valentino Aldana (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including collecting one or more inputs, each of which describes a target object. The method including generating a plurality of images of the target object using an image generation artificial intelligence system configured...