ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,139, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Contextual media generation" was invented by Pooja Guhan (College Park, Md.), Saayan Mitra (San Jose, Calif.), Somdeb Sarkhel (San Jose, Calif.), Ritwik Sinha (Cupertino, Calif.), Stefano Petrangeli (San Francisco) and Viswanathan Swaminathan (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for media generation are provided. According to one aspect, a method for media generation includes obtaining a media object and context data describing a context of the media object, wherein the media object comprises one or more modification parameters; gene...