ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,606, issued on March 17, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generative AI inferred prompt outpainting" was invented by Michael Spencer Cragg (Troy, Mich.), Edward Christopher Wright (Shorewood, Minn.), Davis Taylor Brown (Seattle), Dana Michelle Jefferson (Astoria, N.Y.) and Andreas Kuefer (Sausalito, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image processing are provided. Embodiments of the present disclosure obtain an image and a target dimension for expanding the image. The system generates a prompt based on the image using a prompt generation network. A diffusion model generates an expanded image...