ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,865, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Transferring hairstyles between portrait images utilizing deep latent representations" was invented by Saikat Chakrabarty (Noida, India) and Sunil Kumar (Mathura, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes one or more embodiments of systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that generate a transferred hairstyle image that depicts a person from a source image having a hairstyle from a target image. For example, the disclosed systems utilize a face-generative neural network to project the source and target images into latent ve...