ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,828, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating an alpha image based on a text prompt" was invented by Ryan Burgert (Port Jefferson, N.Y.), Brian Lynn Price (Grove, Utah), Yijun Li (Seattle) and Jason Wen Yong Kuen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system for image generation includes obtaining a text prompt describing an object and a keyable background and generating an image including the object and the keyable background based on the text prompt. Some embodiments generate an alpha image by replacing the keyable bac...