ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,797, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Semantic image synthesis" was invented by Yu Zeng (Baltimore), Zhe Lin (Clyde Hill, Wash.), Jianming Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Qing Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jason Wen Yong Kuen (San Jose, Calif.) and John Philip Collomosse (Woking, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include obtaining a text prompt describing an element, layout information indicating a target region for the element, and a precision level corresponding to the element. Some embodiments generate a text feature pyramid based on the text prompt, the layo...