ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,259, issued on March 24, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Image generation using a text and image conditioned machine learning model" was invented by Tobias Hinz (Campbell, Calif.), Venkata Naveen Kumar Yadav Marri (Newark, Calif.), Midhun Harikumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale (San Jose, Calif.), Zhe Lin (Clyde Hill, Wash.), Oliver Wang (Seattle) and Jingwan Lu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system for image generation include obtaining a text embedding of a text prompt and an image embedding of an image prompt. Some ...