ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,800, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Modifying digital images using combinations of direct interactions with the digital images and context-informing speech input" was invented by Nikita Soni (Chicago), Trung Bui (San Jose, Calif.) and Kevin Gary Smith (Lehi, Utah).

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 that edit digital images using combinations of speech input and gesture interactions. For instance, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems receive speech input from a client device displaying a digital image wit...