ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,423, issued on May 12, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"One-click image extension with quick mask adjustment" was invented by Yuqian Zhou (Bellevue, Wash.), Elya Shechtman (Seattle), Zhe Lin (Clyde Hill, Wash.), Krishna Kumar Singh (San Jose, Calif.), Jingwan Lu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Connelly Stuart Barnes (Seattle) and Sohrab Amirghodsi (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image processing (e.g., image extension or image uncropping) using neural networks are described. One or more aspects include obtaining an image (e.g., a source image, a user provided image, etc.) having an initial aspect ra...