ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,441, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for generating a semantic computation graph for understanding and grounding referring expressions" was invented by Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Walter W. Chang (San Jose, Calif.), Scott Cohen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Khoi Viet Pham (Hyattsville, Md.), Jonathan Brandt (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Franck Dernoncourt (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and non-transitory computer storage media for parsing a given input referring expression into a parse structure and generating a s...