ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,180, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for data augmentation" was invented by Shripad Vilasrao Deshmukh (Maharashtra, India), Surgan Jandial (Jammu Kashmir, India), Abhinav Java (Uttar Pradesh, India), Milan Aggarwal (Delhi, India), Mausoom Sarkar (New Delhi), Arneh Jain (Kerala, India) and Balaji Krishnamurthy (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for data augmentation are provided. One aspect of the systems and methods include receiving an image that is misclassified by a classification network; computing an augmentation image based on the image...