ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,625, issued on July 21, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Scribble-to-vector image generation" was invented by Keerti Harpavat (Udaipur, India), Arshdeep Singh Chugh (New Delhi), Zongze Wu (San Francisco), Souymodip Chakraborty (Karnataka, India), Ankit Phogat (Haryana, India) and Vineet Batra (Delhi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, apparatus, and system for image generation include obtaining a sketch input depicting an object, processing the sketch input to obtain sketch guidance, and generating a synthesized image based on the sketch guidance using an ...