ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,588, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Saliency-based background generation" was invented by Ajay Jain (San Jose, Calif.), Michele Saad (Austin, Texas) and Irgelkha Mejia (River Edge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with the described techniques, a background generation system receives one or more images depicting an object, and textual information describing the object. A generative text model is employed to generate a prompt based on the one or more images and the textual information. Further, a generative image model is employed to generate an output image. To do so, the generativ...