ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,043, issued on July 29, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Utilizing machine learning models for patch retrieval and deformation in completing three-dimensional digital shapes" was invented by Siddhartha Chaudhuri (Bangalore, India), Bo Sun (Austin, Texas), Vladimir Kim (Seattle) and Noam Aigerman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed that utilizes machine learning models for patch retrieval and deformation in completing three-dimensional digital shapes. In particular, in one or more implementations the disclosed systems utilize a ...