ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,896, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Inserting three-dimensional objects into digital images with consistent lighting via global and local lighting information" was invented by Ruben Villegas (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Yunseok Jang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Duygu Ceylan Aksit (Mountain View, Calif.), Jimei Yang (Merced, Calif.) and Xin Sun (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes methods, non-transitory computer readable storage media, and systems that generate realistic shading for three-dimensional objects inserted into digital images. The disclosed system utilizes a light en...