ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,456, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Non-destructive generative image editing" was invented by Davis Taylor Brown (Seattle), Alan Lee Erickson (Franktown, Colo.), Dana Michelle Jefferson (Astoria, N.Y.) and Michael Spencer Cragg (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for non-destructive image editing are described. Embodiments are configured to obtain, via a document editor user interface, a selection input identifying a portion of a first image displayed in the document editor user interface. According to some aspects, the first image is part of a first layer of a multilayer ...