ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,518, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Panoptically guided inpainting utilizing a panoptic inpainting neural network" was invented by Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Haitian Zheng (Rochester, N.Y.), Elya Shechtman (Seattle), Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.), Jingwan Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ning Xu (Milpitas, Calif.), Qing Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Scott Cohen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sohrab Amirghodsi (Seattle).

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 for panoptically guiding digital image inpainting utilizing a panoptic...