ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,596, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Modifying digital images via perspective-aware object move" was invented by Zhihong Ding (Fremont, Calif.), Scott Cohen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Matthew Joss (Seattle), Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.), Darshan Prasad (San Jose, Calif.), Celso Gomes (Bellevue, Wash.) and Jonathan Brandt (Santa Cruz, 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 implement perspective-aware object move operations for digital image editing. For instance, in some embodiments, the disclosed system...