ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,755, issued on April 14, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Deep learning-based high resolution image inpainting" was invented by Zhe Lin (Freemont, Wash.), Yuqian Zhou (Seattle), Sohrab Amirghodsi (Seattle), Qing Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Elya Shechtman (Seattle), Connelly Barnes (Seattle) and Haitian Zheng (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various disclosed embodiments are directed to resizing, via down-sampling and up-sampling, a high-resolution input image in order to meet machine learning model low-resolution processing requirements, while also producing a high-resolution output image for image inpai...