ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,858, issued on April 21, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Image generation with multiple image editing modes" was invented by Yuqian Zhou (Bellevue, Wash.), Krishna Kumar Singh (San Jose, Calif.), Zhifei Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Difan Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Zhe Lin (Clyde Hill, Wash.), Jianming Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Qing Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jingwan Lu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Elya Shechtman (Seattle), Sohrab Amirghodsi (Seattle) and Connelly Stuart Barnes (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system obtains an input image (e.g., a user provided image, etc.) and a mask indicating an edit r...