ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,210, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Local attribute image editing using an image generation model and a feature image generation model" was invented by Haokun Chen (Shenzhen, China), Ruixue Shen (Shenzhen, China) and Rui Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image editing method includes acquiring an initial image generation model and a feature image generation model, the initial image generation model having been trained based on a first training image set, the feature image generation model having been obtained by training the initial image generation ...