ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,937, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Prior guided latent diffusion" was invented by Midhun Harikumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Venkata Naveen Kumar Yadav Marri (Newark, Calif.), Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale (San Jose, Calif.), Pranav Vineet Aggarwal (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vinh Ngoc Khuc (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image processing are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure obtain a text prompt for text guided image generation. A multi-modal encoder of an image processing apparatus encodes the text prompt to obtain a text embedding. A diffusion prior mode...