ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,565, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Amodal instance segmentation using diffusion models" was invented by Jianming Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Qing Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yilin Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhe Lin (Clyde Hill, Wash.) and Bowen Zhang (Adelaide, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for instance segmentation are described. Embodiments include identifying an input image comprising an object that includes a visible region and an occluded region that is concealed in the input image. A mask network generates an instance mask for the input image that indicates the visi...