ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,804, issued on April 8, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wire segmentation for images using machine learning" was invented by Mang Tik Chiu (Champaign, Ill.), Connelly Barnes (Seattle), Zijun Wei (San Jose, Calif.), Zhe Lin (Clyde Hill, Wash.), Yuqian Zhou (Champaign, Ill.), Xuaner Zhang (Union City, Calif.), Sohrab Amirghodsi (Seattle), Florian Kainz (San Rafael, Calif.) and Elya Shechtman (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for performing wire segmentation of images using machine learning. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods comprise receiving an ...