ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,204, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"3D-aware transformations using a diffusion model" was invented by Paul Guerrero (London), Yannick Hold-Geoffroy (Quebec City), Matheus Gadelha (San Jose, Calif.) and Karran Pandey (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for implementing 3D-aware transformations using a diffusion model are disclosed. A computing system receives an image of a three-dimensional ("3D") object, a text prompt, and a 3D transformation. The computing system generates an initial state for a diffusion model. The computing system generates, using the diffusion model, a second image...