ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,194, issued on July 8, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Neural image compositing with layout transformers" was invented by Kerem Can Turgutlu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sanat Sharma (Austin, Texas), Jayant Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Rohith Mohan Dodle (San Jose, Calif.) and Vipul Dalal (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image processing are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure receive an image depicting an object; generate a sequence of tokens including a set of tokens corresponding to the object and a set of mask tokens corresponding to an additional object to be inserted int...