ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,727, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Image and object inpainting with diffusion models" was invented by Haitian Zheng (Rochester, N.Y.), Zhe Lin (Clyde Hill, Wash.), Jianming Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Connelly Stuart Barnes (Seattle), Elya Shechtman (Seattle), Jingwan Lu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qing Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sohrab Amirghodsi (Seattle), Yuqian Zhou (Bellevue, Wash.) and Scott Cohen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image processing are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure receive an image comprising a first region that includes cont...