ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,099, issued on May 19, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fine-tuning and controlling diffusion models" was invented by Nupur Kumari (Pittsburgh), Richard Zhang (Burlingame, Calif.), Junyan Zhu (Pittsburgh) and Elya Shechtman (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for fine-tuning diffusion models are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure obtain an input text indicating an element to be included in an image; generate a synthetic image depicting the element based on the input text using a diffusion model trained by comparing synthetic images depicting the element to training images depicting ...