ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,872, issued on April 21, was assigned to LEMON INC. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Techniques for model-based image operation in effect creation tools" was invented by Lakshminarayanan Vijayaraghavan (San Jose, Calif.), Guoqiang Xie (San Jose, Calif.), Jason Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Blake Garrett Fuselier (Los Angeles) and Guan-Bai Chen (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for image operations in an effect creation tool, including receiving, via a user interface provided for the effect creation tool, a natural language string requesting an operation related to obtaining or modifying an image, providin...