ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,289, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating labels for segments of a digital image using a mask-aware classification neural network" was invented by Jason Wen Yong Kuen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Cristina Isabel Gonzalez Osorio (Bogota, Colombia), Jing Shi (Rochester, N.Y.), Jiuxiang Gu (College Park, Md.), Kushal Kafle (Boston), Yuqian Zhou (Urbana, Ill.) and Zijun Wei (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that generate segment labels for image segments of a digital image that have been deter...