ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,937, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Text-based image generation" was invented by Taesung Park (San Francisco), Minguk Kang (Pohang-si, South Korea), Richard Zhang (Burlingame, Calif.), Junyan Zhu (Pittsburgh), Elya Shechtman (Seattle) and Sylvain Paris (Jamaica Plain, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image generation are provided. An aspect of the systems and methods includes obtaining a text prompt, generating a style vector based on the text prompt, generating an adaptive convolution filter based on the style vector, and generating an image corresponding to the text pr...