ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,870, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Inferring tone conveyed by digital content" was invented by Irgelkha Mejia (River Edge, N.J.), Michele Saad (Austin, Texas) and Ajay Jain (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with the described techniques, a tone embedding system includes one or more generative content models and a neural network trained to extract tone from input content. The tone embedding system receives a set of multimodal input content associated with an entity, and a content generation prompt. Based on the content generation prompt, the one or more generative conte...