ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,472, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Relightable scene reconstructions using radiance guided material extraction" was invented by Elie Louis Simon Michel (Paris), Julien Olivier Victor Philip (London), Diego Andre Gomez Mijangos (Paris) and Adrien Michel Paul Kaiser (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for relightable scene reconstructions using radiance guided material extraction are described to accurately render 3D scenes under different lighting conditions and perspectives than original source images from which the scenes are constructed. In an example, a processing device is...