ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,080, issued on July 1, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Human inpainting utilizing a segmentation branch for generating an infill segmentation map" was invented by Krishna Kumar Singh (San Jose, Calif.), Yijun Li (Seattle), Jingwan Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Duygu Ceylan Aksit (Mountain View, Calif.), Yangtuanfeng Wang (London), Jimei Yang (Merced, Calif.), Tobias Hinz (Ulm, Germany), Qing Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.) and Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.).

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 modify digital...