US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 7 for "Performing segmentation of objects in media items based on user input" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,358, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Performing segmentation of objects in media items based on user input" was invented by Orly Liba (Mountain View, Calif.), Navin Sarma (Mountain View, Calif.), Yael Pritch Knaan (Mountain View, Calif.), Alexander Schiffhauer (Mountain View, Calif.), Longqi Cai (Mountain View, Calif.), David Jacobs (Mountain View, Calif.), Huizhong Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Siyang Li (Mountain View, Calif.) and Bryan Feldman (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media application receives user input that indicates one or more objects to be erased from a med...