ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,077, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating iterative inpainting digital images via neural network based perceptual artifact segmentations" was invented by Sohrab Amirghodsi (Seattle), Lingzhi Zhang (Philadelphia), Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Elya Shechtman (Seattle), Yuqian Zhou (Urbana, Ill.) and Connelly Barnes (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for generating neural network based perceptual artifact segmentations in synthetic digital image content. The disclosed system utilizing neural networks to detect p...