ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,691, issued on June 17, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Utilizing a generative machine learning model to create modified digital images from an infill semantic map" was invented by Qing Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.), Krishna Kumar Singh (San Jose, Calif.), Scott Cohen (Sunnyvale, 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 images via scene-based editing using image understanding facilitated by artificial intelligence. For example, in one or more embod...