ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,597, issued on March 18, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Semantic-aware initial latent code selection for text-guided image editing and generation" was invented by Cameron Smith (San Jose, Calif.), Wei-An Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Timothy M. Converse (San Francisco), Shabnam Ghadar (San Jose, Calif.), Ratheesh Kalarot (San Jose, Calif.), John Nack (San Jose, Calif.), Jingwan Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hui Qu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Elya Shechtman (Seattle) and Baldo Faieta (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An item recommendation system receives a set of recommendable items and a request to select, from the...