ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,796, issued on March 11, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Modifying digital images utilizing a language guided image editing model" was invented by Ning Xu (Milpitas, Calif.) and Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes one or more implementations of systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that perform language guided digital image editing utilizing a cycle-augmentation generative-adversarial neural network (CAGAN) that is augmented using a cross-modal cyclic mechanism. For example, the disclosed systems generate an editing description network that generate...