ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,450, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.), Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for generating creative sketches using models guided by sketches and text" was invented by Chuan-En Lin (Pittsburgh), Hyeonsu B. Kang (Pittsburgh), Nikolas A. Martelaro (Pittsburgh), Aniket D. Kittur (Pittsburgh), Yin-Ying Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Matthew K. Hong (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to generating images and sketches iteratively using models guide...