ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,831, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Background separation for guided generative models" was invented by Sudeep Katakol (San Francisco), Siddharth Iyer (San Francisco) and Aliakbar Darabi (Newcastle, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include obtaining an input image and an approximate mask that approximately indicates a foreground region of the input image. Some embodiments generate an unconditional mask of the foreground region based on the input image. A conditional mask of the foreground region is generated based on the input image and the approximate ma...