ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,884, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Pattern-guided coordinate mapping for digital image retexturing" was invented by Yangtuanfeng Wang (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Retexturing items depicted in digital image data is described. An image retexturing system receives image data that depicts an item featuring a pattern. The image retexturing system identifies coarse correspondences between regions in the image data and a two-dimensional image of the pattern. Using the coarse correspondences, the image retexturing system establishes, for each pixel in the image data depicting the item, a pair o...