ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,853, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Inpainting digital images using a hybrid wire removal pipeline" was invented by Yuqian Zhou (Urbana, Ill.), Connelly Barnes (Seattle), Zijun Wei (San Jose, Calif.), Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Elya Shechtman (Seattle), Sohrab Amirghodsi (Seattle) and Xiaoyang Liu (Bellevue, Wash.).

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 inpainting a digital image using a hybrid wire removal pipeline. For example, the disclosed systems use a hybrid wire removal pipeline that integrates multiple...