ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,877, issued on June 2, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating text descriptive of digital images" was invented by Pranav Aggarwal (San Jose, Calif.), Di Pu (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel ReMine (San Jose, Calif.) and Ajinkya Kale (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In implementation of techniques for generating text descriptive of digital images, a computing device implements a captioning system to generate a text description of an image using a machine learning model. The captioning system identifies a negative word in the text description of the image based on a quantitative risk ...