ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,334, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Preset style transfer" was invented by Hareesh Ravi (San Jose, Calif.), Midhun Harikumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Taesung Park (San Francisco) and Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image processing are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure include an image generation network configured to encode a plurality of abstract images using a style encoder to obtain a plurality of abstract style encodings, wherein the style encoder is trained to represent image style separately from image content. A clu...