ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,034, issued on July 1, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating mappings of three-dimensional meshes utilizing neural network gradient fields" was invented by Noam Aigerman (San Francisco), Kunal Gupta (San Diego), Jun Saito (Seattle), Thibault Groueix (Grenoble, France), Vladimir Kim (Seattle) and Siddhartha Chaudhuri (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for generating digital chain pull paintings in digital images. The disclosed system generate, utilizing a neural network, a plurality of matrices over an ambient space for...