ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,495, issued on June 3, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Anonymizing digital images utilizing a generative adversarial neural network" was invented by Siavash Khodadadeh (Mountain View, Calif.), Ratheesh Kalarot (San Jose, Calif.), Shabnam Ghadar (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Yannick Hold-Geoffroy (San Jose, 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 for generating anonymized digital images utilizing a face anonymization neural network. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize a face anonymization neural network to extract or e...