ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,432, issued on July 14, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hybrid sampling for diffusion models" was invented by Difan Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Siddharth Iyer (San Francisco) and Ryan Joe Murdock (American Fork, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating images using hybrid sampling include obtaining a noisy image and generating a first denoised image during a first reverse diffusion phase using a diffusion neural network. The first denoised image is generated based on a first sampler that uses a first sampling density during at least a portion of the first reverse diffusion phase. Subsequently...