ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,842, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Diffusion-based universal effect transfer" was invented by Zhanghan Ke (Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong), Nanxuan Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Yilin Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yijun Li (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system for image processing include obtaining an input image and a reference effect prompt, where the reference effect prompt indicates an image effect for the input image, generating an intermediate image based on the reference effect prompt, where the intermediate image depicts the i...