ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,240, issued on March 3, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Open vocabulary instance segmentation with noise estimation and robust student" was invented by Jason Wen Yong Kuen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Dat Ba Huynh (Boston), Zhe Lin (Clyde Hill, Wash.) and Jiuxiang Gu (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image segmentation are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure receive a training image and a caption for the training image, wherein the caption includes text describing an object in the training image; generate a pseudo mask for the object using a teacher network based on the text desc...