ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,181, issued on April 1, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Text-based framework for video object selection" was invented by Shivam Nalin Patel (Mountain View, Calif.), Kshitiz Garg (Santa Clara, Calif.), Han Guo (San Jose, Calif.), Ali Aminian (San Jose, Calif.) and Aashish Misraa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for receiving a user input and an input video comprising multiple frames. The method may include extracting a text feature from the user input. The method may further include extracting a plurality of image features from the frames. The method may further include identif...