ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,520, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating neural network based perceptual artifact segmentations in modified portions of a digital image" was invented by Sohrab Amirghodsi (Seattle), Lingzhi Zhang (Philadelphia), Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Elya Shechtman (Seattle), Yuqian Zhou (Urbana, Ill.) and Connelly Barnes (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for generating neural network based perceptual artifact segmentations in synthetic digital image content. The disclosed system utilizing neural networks to detect p...