ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,301, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Prompt-based image relighting and editing" was invented by Ambareesh Revanur (San Jose, Calif.), Shradha Agrawal (Milpitas, Calif.) and Deepak Pai (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for prompt-based image relighting and editing are described that support automatic generation of an edited digital image with high-fidelity and realistic lighting effects and background features. A processing device, for instance, receives as input a digital image that depicts a digital object, a lighting prompt, and a background prompt. The processing device...