ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,846, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Using game state data for semantic understanding by an AI image generation model" was invented by Warren Benedetto (Foothill Ranch, Calif.), Arran Green (San Diego), Rebecca Abel (Longmont, Colo.) and Jon Webb (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided, including: receiving a game image, said game image being captured from gameplay of a video game and said game image depicting a scene of the video game; receiving game state data describing attributes of the scene of the video game that is depicted in the game image; recei...