ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,271, issued on March 24, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Color conditioned diffusion prior" was invented by Pranav Vineet Aggarwal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Venkata Naveen Kumar Yadav Marri (Newark, Calif.), Midhun Harikumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sachin Madhav Kelkar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hareesh Ravi (San Jose, Calif.) and Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image processing are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure, via a multi-modal encoder of an image processing apparatus, encodes a text prompt to obtain a text embedding. A color encoder of the ...