ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,127, issued on April 8, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting digital objects and generating object masks on device" was invented by Jason Wen Yong Kuen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Su Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Scott Cohen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Zijun Wei (San Jose, Calif.) and Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that generates object masks for digital objects portrayed in digital images utilizing a detection-masking neural network pipeline. In particular, in one or more embo...