ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,827, issued on July 1, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating scene graphs from digital images using external knowledge and image reconstruction" was invented by Handong Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Sheng Li (San Jose, Calif.), Mingyang Ling (San Francisco) and Jiuxiang Gu (Singapore).

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 semantic scene graphs for digital images using an external knowledgebase for feature refinement. For example, the disclosed system can determine object proposals and subgraph proposals ...