ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,620, issued on July 29, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Removing objects at image capture time" was invented by Sankalp Shukla (Ghaziabad, India), Angad Kumar Gupta (Noida, India) and Sourabh Gupta (Noida, India).

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 removing objects from an image stream at capture time of a digital image. For example, the disclosed system contemporaneously detects and segments objects from a digital image stream being previewed in a camera viewfinder graphical user interface of a client device. The disclosed sy...