ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,150, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Inpainting dispatch techniques for digital images" was invented by Yuqian Zhou (Bellevue, Wash.), Zhe Lin (Clyde Hill, Wash.), Xiaoyang Liu (Bellevue, Wash.), Sohrab Amirghodsi (Seattle), Qing Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lingzhi Zhang (Philadelphia), Elya Schechtman (Seattle) and Connelly Stuart Barnes (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inpainting dispatch techniques for digital images are described. In one or more examples, an inpainting system includes a plurality of inpainting modules. The inpainting modules are configured to employ a variety of different te...