ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,319, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Deep learning based copying and pasting of transparent objects" was invented by Praveen Gelra (Noida, India), Ashish Anand (Noida, India), Ansh Gupta (New Delhi) and Ajay Bedi (Hamirpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that generate a modified digital image depicting a transparent object utilizing a transparency properties neural network. For example, the disclosed system accesses a trimap for a source digital image depicting a transparent object. The disclosed sys...