ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,766, issued on April 7, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatically generating an image dataset based on object instance similarity" was invented by Midhun Harikumar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Shabnam Ghadar (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Baldo Faieta (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media are disclosed for accurately and efficiently generating groups of images portraying semantically similar objects for utilization in building machine learning models. In particular, the disclosed system utilizes metadata and spatial statistics to e...