ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,585, issued on July 22, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Utilizing machine learning models to generate refined depth maps with segmentation mask guidance" was invented by Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.), Soo Ye Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Simon Niklaus (San Jose, Calif.), Yifei Fan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Su Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for utilizing machine learning models to generate refined depth maps of digital images utilizing digital segmentation masks. In particul...